Safeguarding and Child Protection

Collaborative Working

Our pastoral, SEND, behaviour, mental health/well-being and safeguarding teams all work together to secure the best outcomes for our young people and their families. We consider all the possible factors that could affect a young person’s decision making or circumstances.

Staff and Governors at Haberdashers’ Abraham Darby want every student to fulfil their full potential. In order for this to happen, we ensure that wellbeing is at the forefront of everything we do.

We recognise that life isn’t always easy and there will be times when every family experiences ‘a difficult patch’. Watching your child grow into a resilient determined young adult is exciting but can also be challenging. We are here for you through the challenging times as well as the exciting ones.

Support and guidance is available to families through our ‘HADSafe’ offer. Working together we can prevent small problems from escalating into bigger ones.

Our offer to you includes a range of strategies and initiatives:

HADSafe

Help      Advice     Defend

Help is our universal offer supporting every child and parent navigate life as a young person/parent in this evolving world. In the first instance please contact your child’s mentor by email, if they are unable to help you themselves, they will pass on your details to someone who can.

Advice: Targeted support for those students and families that need some additional guidance. This support is offered by the Academy’s pastoral team, including our attendance team, and includes:

Pastoral (year) teams

Mental Health Team

Defend: for those families that need a designated member of staff to guide them through what can be frightening times. This support is offered by our more experiences safeguarding leads:

Lorna McCurdy & Isobel Williams

Whichever wave of support we help with, please be reassured that you and your family will be treated with the utmost respect, we are parents too, we come with our own experiences and know how tricky the teenage years can be. So, whether it’s help filling in a form, worries about exploitation or something more complicated, please get in touch – we all need a professional friend occasionally.

Additional help and support can be found here:

SEND – Local offer

Contextual Safeguarding

Here at the Academy we use a variety of services to create awareness and educate pupils about exploitation. We have comprehensive resources within our INSIGHT programme and assembly themes with some delivered by external organisations. Some of our major partners include CLIMB and St Giles. We use the Telford and Wrekin Child Exploitation Risk Threshold Indicator and the Child Exploitation Pathway to support with decision making.

How we support – Services and Agency Partners

Thresholds of services and agencies we employ to support different levels of need