Safeguarding at St Piers College
St Piers School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk.
What is a safeguarding concern?
Safeguarding means protecting our students’ health, wellbeing and rights, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect.
Therefore we need to know if there are any concerns that are affecting a student’s health, wellbeing and human rights.
The following are concerns that must be raised to the safeguarding team:
- Allegations, disclosures or concerns about physical, sexual, emotional, institutional, financial and discriminatory abuse
- Online safety concerns including cyber bullying, online grooming and sexting
- Peer on peer assaults
- Medication misadministration
- Bullying
- Unexplained injuries and bruising
- Neglect
Safeguarding Team
Executive Lead - strategic responsibility for safeguarding across Young Epilepsy
Safeguarding and Compliance Manager - operational lead for safeguarding across Young Epilepsy
Safeguarding Officers - There are a number of Safeguarding Officers who provide an on call support service to all staff 24hrs a day 365 days a year regarding any safeguarding concerns.
Reporting concerns or allegations
If you are concerned about a student’s welfare, or need to report unexplained injuries, or bruising, a disclosure or poor practice of any sort, please contact the Safeguarding Manager or speak to the Safeguarding Officer on call (their number can be sought from any Young Epilepsy staff).
Operation Encompass
As part of our responsibilities to ensure the children and young people we support are safe and well, Young Epilepsy has taken the opportunity to join Operation Encompass which is a joint scheme between local schools, Surrey Police and Surrey County Council.
Operation Encompass has been designed to provide early reporting on any domestic incidents that occur outside of Young Epilepsy and might have an impact on a child in school.
Operation Encompass ensures that a member of the school staff, named a ‘Key Adult’ is informed the next morning that there has been a domestic incident or if a child has been reported as missing.
This means that the Key Adult can ensure that the child is supported whilst they are in school.
At Young Epilepsy the Key Adults are Richard Gargon (Principal) and Alex Dave (Safeguarding and Compliance Manager).
For more information see www.operationencompass.org
Contact during office hours
Alex Dave
Safeguarding and Compliance Manager
T: 01342 831218
My son is a changed person. He never wanted to engage with staff or his peers, often he was non compliant and would not interact in social activities or undertake tasks. He is now so much more proactive, he has learnt home skills where he undertakes tasks using his own initiative either with minimum prompting or totally unsupported. 
