Lyndon Green Infant School
Wellbeing and Safeguarding
Our Senior Learning Mentor and Designated Safeguarding Leads are here to help and support our children. We have regular workshops for parents.
We also offer for children:
- Drawing and Talking therapy
- Sand therapy
- Lunchtime social groups
- Family First Sessions
- Triple P sessions
Our Early Help Offer:
Early Help means taking action to support a child, young person or their family early in the life of a problem, as soon as it emerges. It can be required at any stage in a child’s life from pre-birth to adulthood, and applies to any problem or need that the family cannot deal with or meet on their own. It also applies to all children and young people, with any form of need.
Early Help requires that agencies should work together as soon as a problem emerges or a need is identified to ensure the child gets the right response, and the right services, from the right people at the right time. Our aim is to meet need early and avoid a problem escalating or the need increasing.
Early Help is provided to prevent or reduce the need for specialist interventions unless they are absolutely the correct response to meet the need and resolve the problem.
Please speak to school if you feel your family would benefit from ‘Early Help’.
Family Connect:
Some families need support from more than one professional. We connect and work together to support families, continuing to build relationships and supporting a range of needs of all family members.
You can come into school and a DSL will support you to complete a referral, or as a parent you can complete the Family Connect form ↗ for self-referral.
Childrens Advice and Support Service (CASS):
The Children’s Advice and Support Service (CASS) provides a single point of contact for members of the public who want to seek support or raise concerns about a child.
To contact CASS call 0121 303 1888. The telephone opening hours are:
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Monday to Thursday: 8.45am to 5.15pm
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Friday: 8.45am to 4.15pm
Outside of these hours contact the emergency out-of-hours number: 0121 675 4806
Operation Encompass:
We are part of a joint operation involving Birmingham Children’s Trust, Birmingham City Council, and West Midlands Police. Operation Encompass helps schools to provide in-school support to children who have been present at, exposed to or involved in any domestic abuse incident.
We know that children can be significantly harmed, physically and/or emotionally, during these situations, and that it also negatively affects their learning and behaviour in class. Therefore, as part of the Operation Encompass procedure, and to help mitigate the resulting negative impact, the school will now receive a confidential phone call or email from West Midlands Police before 9am the morning after a child or young person has been witness to, or involved in, any reported domestic abuse incident.
Here at Lyndon Green Infant School we have a dedicated and child-focussed Safeguarding Team. They are specially trained to effectively use the information the Police share, in confidence, and enable the school to provide the right support to any child and their family.
We always endeavour to offer the best support possible to our pupils and believe this will be extremely beneficial for all those involved.
More information can be found at www.operationencompass.org ↗
Useful Services
Food Bank Support - Birmingham
The cost of living crisis has made it much more difficult for many people in Birmingham to afford food. If this is something you are experiencing, there are a lot of different ways you can get food cheaply or for free.
The NSPCC support everything to protect children today and prevents abuse tomorrow, to transform society for every childhood.
The Waiting Room is your one stop directory for health and wellbeing services across Birmingham and Solihull.
Birmingham Children’s Trust exists to make a positive difference for children, young people and families in the city of Birmingham.
Pause can help with anything relating to emotional wellbeing! They also provide support for parents and carers who are concerned about their child or young person’s wellbeing.
Women’s Aid is the national charity working to end domestic abuse against women and children.
Help provide practical advice and support to men who have been abused.
Our DSLs are:
Miss Porter- Assistant Head
