Horsforth Featherbank Primary School

Leeds Joint Agency Protocol for Domestic Violence and Abuse: School and Higher Education Notifications requires an up to date database of trained Safeguarding Leads. This list will be maintained by Education Safeguarding Team and the Front Door Safeguarding Hub. Each educational setting will need to ensure that there is a sufficiently trained deputy to receive the information in their absence (see Appendix 2). Where no Safeguarding Lead is available a message will be left with the educational setting that there is a notification. An email address is essential and any changes to the Safeguarding Leads database must be forwarded to the Front Door Safeguarding Hub as soon as practicable. 

Educational settings must also make certain that there is an open phone line or appropriate mobile number as a contact for the Front Door Safeguarding Hub staff to utilise.

Educational settings must record the information that they receive from the Front Door Safeguarding Hub in the individual child protection record, which must be retained and stored utilising the current process used to store child protection information within the educational setting – a domestic abuse recording template for education establishments can be requested from lscp.info@leeds.gov.uk. Educational settings need to be aware that in the event of any Domestic Homicide Reviews, Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews or Safeguarding Adult Reviews these documents may be required for disclosure purposes.  

It is expected that all state and independent schools, academies, and alternative education providers (AEP) will participate in the notification process.