Safeguarding
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility.
William Austin Junior School is committed to safeguarding and actively promoting the welfare of children and young people. We believe in promoting the welfare of all our children by protecting them from harm and making sure they feel safe. We provide a safe environment for children to learn and grow.
William Austin Junior School Safeguarding Team
If you have any concerns about a pupil please see any member of the Safeguarding Team.
Mrs Douglas and Mrs Adams are the Designated Safeguarding Leads. If you have concerns about an adult in school please see Mrs Adams or Mrs Parkar.
Mrs Douglas
Inclusion Manager
Designated Safeguarding Lead
Mrs Adams
Head Teacher
Designated Safeguarding Lead
Mrs Parkar
Deputy Head
Mrs Ramzan
Assistant Head
Mr McMulkin
Assistant Head
Mrs Slater
Family Worker Team Leader
Mrs Pal
Family Worker
Mrs Akhtar
Family Worker
Early Help Offer
At William Austin Junior School we are here to support our families and enable our children to reach their full potential in all aspects of their development and emotional well-being. We work closely with our children, their families, staff and other professionals in order to achieve our aims. We offer a range of support to our children and families including the following:
Universal offer – for all children:
- New families meet with our family worker
- Staff work closely with outside agencies to ensure that support for pupils is fully embedded into everyday life
- Mental Health and Wellbeing is taught through our PHSE curriculum, using Discovery Education and Kapow resources
- Pupils participate in the daily walk/ run (links between exercise and wellbeing)
- Weekly assemblies celebrate success
- Access to free clubs before, after school and lunchtimes
- Access to homework club
- Lunchtime club everyday
- Free breakfast club for all children- DfE Early Adopter
- Therapeutic Thinking embedded across school- training for all staff
- Rights Respecting School- bronze award
- Support with transition
- Scaffolded support to access the curriculum
Targeted support – identified pupils may be offered the following:
- Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) sessions
- Drawing and Talking sessions
- Nurture group sessions- weekly
- Wellbeing check-ins
- Behaviour charts as needed
- Regular meeting with parents
- One to one sessions with parent and child run by our Family Workers
- Access to our school CAMHs link worker
- Individual Education Plans for pupils on the SEND register
- Review cycles to monitor progress
- TA support in class to support learning
- Daily phonics intervention
- 1:1 intervention
- Neurodiversity Early Help Pathway
- Involvement of external professionals (EP, SALT, occupational therapy etc)
Specialist support:
We closely work with outside agencies such as Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) to identify pupils and families who may require additional support. We also provide opportunities for parents to meet together informally in order for them to build strengthened support networks.
- Support parents and carers- one to one sessions
- Family Worker team there for all aspects of parenting support
- Parenting programmes and other courses– some run by our Family Workers, or Luton Adult Education team
- Coffee mornings and community cooking sessions
Sign posting to external support
Our staff are able to signpost families to a variety of outside agencies to provide support including:
- Luton All Women Centre
- Luton Housing Department
- Luton Citizens Advice
- Luton Adult Learning
- Luton Food Bank- courses on life skills
- Discover Islam
- Level Trust – vouchers and laptops
- Luton Borough Council- Free school meals/ Pupil Premium application
- High School transition Forms
- School Nurse referrals
- CAMH- parent consultations
- The Early Help Team
- Referral to outside agencies for SEND
- Access to local SEND services (Local Offer)
- SEND parent consultation
- The Right to Choose (NHS)
Operation Encompass
At William Austin Junior School, we are working in partnership with Luton Council and Bedfordshire Police to identify and provide appropriate support to pupils who have experienced domestic abuse in their household; nationally this scheme is called Operation Encompass and locally as Relay. In order to achieve this, Luton Council will share police information with the Nominated Relay SPOC of all domestic incidents where one of our pupils has been affected. On receipt of any information, the Nominated Relay SPOC will decide on the appropriate support the child requires, this could be silent or overt.
All information sharing and resulting actions will be undertaken in accordance with the ‘LC Protocol for Domestic Abuse – Notifications to Schools’. We will record this information and store this information in accordance with the record keeping procedures outlined in this policy.
For further information please the link below
Prevent
Prevent is about safeguarding people and communities from threats of terrorism. Prevent is one of the elements of the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy. It aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism. At William Austin we are committed to safeguarding our pupils against radicalisation. As a school we actively promote British Values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. These values were first set out by the government in the ‘Prevent’ strategy in 2011.
All staff have had Prevent training. Mrs Douglas is our Prevent lead.
Guidance & Policies
Keeping Children Safe In Education
