Operation Encompass
Operation Encompass is a police and education early information safeguarding partnership enabling schools to offer immediate support to children experiencing domestic abuse.
If you need help with domestic abuse, you can
- Call the National Domestic Abuse Helpline at 0808 2000 247 (run by Refuge).
- Call the Men’s Advice Line at 0808 801 0327 (run by Respect).
- Seek advice from your doctor, health visitor or midwife.
- Call the police on 999 if you are in immediate danger
Children are negatively impacted by experiencing domestic abuse and without early intervention and support this negative impact can last through a child’s life course. Domestic abuse can impact upon social, psychological, physical, emotional and behavioural outcomes with an often negative impact upon a child’s academic success. Experiencing domestic abuse has been identified as an Adverse Childhood Experience.
Operation Encompass aims, by directly connecting police and schools, to secure better outcomes for children , to enable schools to better understand the impact living with domestic abuse has upon children, to help schools to better understand a child’s lived experience and to therefore be able to support and nurture each child , making a child’s day better and giving them a better tomorrow.
In every force
Our aim is to ensure that schools have timely information about all police-attended incidents of domestic abuse, no matter where in the world the child lives.
In every school
Our aim is to enable staff in every school to understand how to support children who are experiencing domestic abuse, no matter where in the world the child lives.
For every child
Our aim is to ensure all child experiencing domestic abuse receive timely support in their school, no matter where in the world the child lives.
