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Operation Encompass: Implications for schools and safeguarding work

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Domestic abuse is a danger that too many children have to live with, causing long-term mental and physical consequences. Operation Encompass is now a legal requirement – but what are the implications for schools? Suzanne O’Connell reports
Joint working: Operation Encompass is a police and education early information safeguarding partnership enabling schools to offer immediate support to children experiencing domestic abuse - Adobe Stock

It is almost 15 years since Elisabeth Carney-Haworth, then headteacher at Torpoint Nursery and Infant School in Cornwall, and her husband David, a police sergeant, began their crusade.

Through Operation Encompass, Elisabeth and David determined to bring information to schools that could help them support the victims of domestic abuse.

Operation Encompass is a police and education early information safeguarding partnership enabling schools to offer immediate support to children experiencing domestic abuse.

Finally, in April last year, Operation Encompass was tabled in the House of Lords as an amendment to the Victims and Prisoners Bill. And in May Royal Assent was given making Operation Encompass a legal requirement for all police services in England and Wales.

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