Partnership and Multi Agency Work at Orchardside

To enhance and support our extensive safeguarding and child protection procedures at Orchardside, we work with a range of professionals.  Some professionals are co-located on our site and some visit us regularly.

Enfield’s Safeguarding Children’s Partnership is an organisation that works together to keep children safe in Enfield. It includes key partners of Orchardside School such as social workers, police officers, health professionals and other services that support children and families. Their main job is to make sure that children of Orchardside and Enfield are protected from harm and that professionals work together to respond to concerns about a child’s safety.

• Sets rules and guidance on how different services (schools, social care, police, health services) should work together to protect children.
• Trains professionals who work with children, so they know how to spot and respond to signs of abuse or neglect.
• Reviews serious cases where a child has been harmed, to learn lessons and improve safeguarding in the future.
• Provides advice and support for families and professionals on keeping children safe.

You can find a link to Enfield’s Safeguarding Children’s Partnership here

Many of our students have additional needs and often need wraparound support to keep them safe and well. We work with a raft of outside agencies to support individual students and their families both in school and out in the community including:

• The Children’s Society
• NSPCC
• MyMe
• Children’s Social Care
• The Police
• CAMHS
• BSS Enfield’s Behaviour Support Service
• Sister System
• Safer London
• Edge of Care
• Enfield’s contextual Safeguarding and Exploitation Team
• Victim Support
• Tottenham Hotspur Foundation
• The Youth Justice Team
• Early Help
• NHS
• The Virtual School
• Kings Trust
• Edmonton Co Operative Trust
• Chicken Shed
• Local Village Network
• Sparks to Life
• SAFE
• MACE
• Enfield’s Youth Work and Development Service
• HumanKind
• Vanguard