About Us

Safeguarding in Partnership (SiP)

Safeguarding in Partnership comprises professionals from Oxfordshire schools (primary, secondary and special) and Thames Valley Police. Previous contributors have included professionals from Oxfordshire Localities and Communities Support Services and Abingdon and Witney College. The group has developed three projects for educational and community professionals to use with children and young people, and where appropriate, their parents. The projects aim to promote the safety and wellbeing of children. They teach: young people about their legal rights and responsibilities, Project 10; risks in the community, Project Right Click; and why it is important that we know the law and understand our responsibility not to break the law, Through Their Eyes.

Following an increase in risks to young people as a result of organised crime gangs targeting children to commit crimes in Oxfordshire. Thames Valley Police wanted to develop ways of raising awareness and community resilience by working with schools and parents to prevent young people from putting themselves at risk of being exploited by criminals. On the basis of the ideas in John Batty’s paper, and an awareness of SCIB’s work on Child Sexual Exploitation, Substance Abuse, and Internet Safety, Safeguarding in Partnership developed Project 10, Project Right Click and in 2023, Through Their Eyes. All three projects have teaching materials designed to be delivered in schools, PowerPoint presentations, teaching notes, and worksheets.

Anne Peake

Anne Peake is an Educational Psychologist who has worked in joint Education and Social Care posts in: Liverpool, the London Borough of Haringey, and Oxfordshire. She has until recently been working in a special school for 24 years, which caters for children who have severe anxiety, attachment difficulties, and autism. She continues to work to support children, who have SEND, and their families. She has a career-long special professional interest in Safeguarding children and young people. She also has extensive experience in working with Children We Care For or who are Adopted. She is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a long-standing member of the BPS Safeguarding Advisory Group.

Chris Jones

Thames Valley Police Schools and Youth Officer

Over the last 16 years, Chris Jones has been passionate about early intervention for young people. For the last five years, he has been the lead officer for the children’s homes in West Oxfordshire. He has created educational packages around crime, producing films on Child Exploitation, and chairing youth forums (to facilitate the child’s voice). In schools, he has delivered assemblies, targeted workshops, a police clinic within the schools, and chaired school safeguarding team meetings. He is a PSHE trained and Restorative Justice Practitioner.

Alison Driscoll

Alison Driscoll is a secondary school teacher working in Oxfordshire. She has worked in three schools, in Gateshead and Oxfordshire since 1994. Previously, she had responsibility for Personal Social and Health Education in an Oxfordshire school and is also a former Designated Safeguarding Lead. Alison is currently part of the Mental Health and Wellbeing team in another school, co-ordinating mental health support for students and overseeing curriculum materials to raise awareness and resilience in student mental health.

Jo Simpson

Jo Simpson is an experienced primary school teacher working in Oxfordshire. She is the Assistant Principal, SENCo and Designated Safeguarding Lead in her school. With these roles, pupil welfare is a key responsibility, sharing information with both pupils and their families to assess risk and make informed decisions.

Our Projects

Project 10

Project 10 is focused on teaching children about their rights and responsibilities in law. The sessions cover an overview of what young people need to know about the law: thinking about victims, risk from those closest to us, to crime in the community. It is aimed primarily at children in school years 5, 6, 7, and 8.

Project Right Click

Project Right Click focuses on everyday situations/events, in which risks are omnipresent and which can be heightened by influences or agents online. It has been designed to educate and empower children and young people to be more safe in the community, and online, and to be more aware of the dangers to them. The sessions are designed to be interactive and are based on original films scripted for Right Click. It is aimed primarily at children and young people from 11 years – 18 years+.

Project Through Their Eyes

Project Through Their Eyes moves on to showing children and young people what happens when the law is broken. The sessions have original films and presentations which show different situations where laws may be broken. These are variously shown through the eyes of the Police, a range of services, family members, and some perpetrators/victims. community notions, loyalties and feelings. The purpose is to explain how situations are seen by those who are affected or those on whom we depend, while increasing understanding and empathy for others. The sessions are designed to be interactive. It is aimed primarily at children and young people from 11 years – 18 years+.

We have links with: the Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board (OSCB); with Public Health through the Self Harm Network; as well as voluntary agencies. MIND, which is building its work with children and young people and Oxfordshire Sexual Abuse Rape Crisis Centre (OSARCC) which is offering workshops in school and individual work with young people around sexual violence, have contributed to the group.

“No matter the offence, every victim and every offender is likely to have had contact with the school system during their lives, either as a parent or as a pupil. Schools are therefore in a key position to help to reduce the number of future victims and offenders by providing targeted inputs to the right people at the right time.”

- John Batty, then Neighbourhood Inspector, Thames Valley Police, 2017

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