New police scheme to help protect children at risk from domestic abuse
Operation Encompass will create a partnership between Lancashire Police and the county’s schools to provide ongoing support for any child who may have witnessed or been a victim of a domestic incident.
It means that when police attend an incident of this nature at an address where a child or children reside – even if those children weren’t present at the time – an alert will be sent to their school immediately so that the school can put its own measures into place to support those child or children when they next attend.
A pilot scheme will be rolled out in some areas of Lancashire from today and the operation will go force-wide from Tuesday, May 7th.
Further details can be found here.