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OPERATION
ENCOMPASS
HOW DID IT START?
Operation Encompass is an
initiative created by husband
and wife team, headteacher
Elisabeth Carney-Haworth and
retired police sargeant , David
Carney-Haworth .
Operation Encompass was
launched in Plymouth in 2011
to address and identify
shortcoming in how
information was being shared
with schools regarding
children living with domestic
abuse.
The concept of Operation
Encompass was both simple
yet revolutionary: If a domestic
incident occurred on the
previous evening with a child
was in the house, the police
would contact the nominated
Key Adult at the child's school
prior to the start of the school
day.
Appropriate support would be
in place for that child. This
support could be overt or
silent dependent upon the
circumstances.
It was such a simple concept
but it had a huge impact.
Having the knowledge that a
child had experienced
domestic abuse, allows the
school to put support for the
child in place.
The Operation Encompass
website contains support
materials and anecdotal
evidence of the success of
Operation Encompass.
O
peration
Encompass is a Police and
Education early intervention safeguarding
partnership that ensures that when the
police have attended at a home where a
child or young person is exposed to
domestic abuse.
A nominated Key Adult will be notified of an incident prior to
the start of the next school day.
So far Operation Encompass has been embraced in 21 police
forces with the force wide rollout in Devon and Cornwall in
December 2017.
In May 2016, Dame Vera Baird QC, Northumbria Police Crime
Commissioner reported on live television that her force had
supported over 1500 children in a 6-month period.
In Norfolk, police implemented Operation Encompass in
January 2017 as a direct result of the recommendations of a
Serious Case Review.
Domestic abuse is identified as an ACE ( Adverse Childhood
Experience) and for children an 86% predictor of having four or
more ACE’s.
Research shows that the more ACEs you have the greater the
negative impact upon physical, emotional and mental health
and the more likely to take part in risk taking behaviours which
people into contact with the police.
With 4+ ACEs you are:
2x more likely to binge drink
5x more likely to have had sex whilst under 16
5x use of illicit drugs
7 x more likely to have been involved in violence in last year
7x addicted to alcohol
11x more likely to have used crack/ heroin or been incarcerated
12x more likely to have attempted suicide
“ It’s so important that we give vulnerable young
people across South Tyneside a voice and Operation
Encompass is about doing just that, offering early
intervention and support when children need it most.”
Dame Vera Baird
http://www.operationencompass.org
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