Lauren · Safeguarding lead
Secondary Alternative Provision and Designated Safeguarding Lead. Contact through the office.
Speak to someone about a concern
Safeguarding
The safety and wellbeing of children and young people is a priority at Beyond Education. If you have a safeguarding concern, please speak to a member of our safeguarding team. If someone is in immediate danger, call 999.
Find safeguarding contactsOur Designated Safeguarding Leads
Call 07951 665435 and ask for the available Designated Safeguarding Lead. Lauren and Marie are identified as safeguarding leads in BE’s AP parent booklet. The office can confirm who is available to speak with you.
The general website enquiry form and social media messages are not urgent safeguarding routes. If you cannot reach the team and are worried about a child’s safety, contact children’s services directly. Do not wait for the office to reopen.
Marie · Safeguarding lead
Designated Safeguarding Lead. Contact through the office.
Urgent help and outside opening hours
If someone is in immediate danger, call 999. For a concern about a child in Trafford, contact Children’s First Response on 0161 912 5125 during the day. For an emergency at night or the weekend, Trafford’s Emergency Duty Team can be reached on 0161 912 2020.
For a child living in another area, contact that council’s children’s services. A child or young person can also contact Childline on 0800 1111. These external services do not depend on making an enquiry with Beyond Education.
Concerns involving a member of staff
If a concern involves a tutor, volunteer, safeguarding lead or director, make that clear when seeking help. Do not feel you must raise a safeguarding concern only with the person it concerns. You can contact Trafford Children’s First Response directly and ask about the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) route for allegations involving adults who work with children.
The safeguarding policy should explain internal reporting, low-level concerns, allegations and whistleblowing. The policy library identifies the documents to read. If there may be an immediate risk to a child, use the urgent contacts above rather than waiting for an ordinary complaint to be resolved.
Registration and responsibilities
Beyond Education is on Ofsted’s Compulsory and Voluntary Childcare Registers under EY555760. This registration is separate from school registration and should not be read as a graded school inspection. The official record is linked below.
Professional referrers should check the approval scheme and scope relevant to the proposed AP placement, together with the supporting documents needed for their commissioning process.
A few useful answers
Your questions, answered.
Can I report an urgent concern through the website form?
No. Call the safeguarding team or the appropriate children’s services contact directly. If someone is in immediate danger, call 999. A general website message may not be read immediately.
What if the safeguarding lead is not available?
Ask the office who is available. If a concern about a child’s safety needs action, contact children’s services directly; you do not need to wait for a particular person or for BE to reopen.
What if the concern involves a safeguarding lead or director?
You can approach children’s services directly. For Trafford, call Children’s First Response and ask about the appropriate route, including the LADO where the concern involves an adult who works with children.
Where can I read the policies?
Use the policy library for the safeguarding and staff-conduct documents. During website review, documents that BE has not yet supplied and approved are clearly marked. Contact the office for the current version.
Speak to the safeguarding team
Call the office and ask for the available safeguarding lead. Use the emergency contacts above if the concern cannot wait.