{"id":16448,"date":"2024-07-18T10:23:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T09:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=16448"},"modified":"2024-08-09T09:14:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T08:14:29","slug":"change-in-process-when-a-critical-incident-occurs-in-a-school-educational-setting-in-devon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/change-in-process-when-a-critical-incident-occurs-in-a-school-educational-setting-in-devon\/","title":{"rendered":"Change in process when a critical incident occurs in a school\/educational setting in Devon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a school or educational setting has experienced a critical incident, it is important that the Local Authority are notified immediately so that any relevant support can be coordinated and put in place as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<h2>What is a critical incident?<\/h2>\n<p>A critical incident can be a single incident or a sequence of incidents which:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>are sudden and unexpected<\/li>\n<li>contain real or imagined threats to a person<\/li>\n<li>overwhelm usual coping mechanisms<\/li>\n<li>cause severe disruption<\/li>\n<li>are traumatic to anyone<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Critical Incidents affecting educational settings may include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>death of a pupil or a member of staff<\/li>\n<li>serious accident involving pupils or school personnel, on or off school premises<\/li>\n<li>violent attack or intrusion into premises e.g. armed intruder or bomb alert<\/li>\n<li>fire, flood, building collapse, or major vandalism<\/li>\n<li>a hostage situation<\/li>\n<li>a disaster in the community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Reporting a critical incident:<\/h2>\n<p>If a school or educational setting has experienced a Critical Incident, it is important that the Local Authority are notified immediately so that any relevant support can be coordinated and put in place as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>When reporting a Critical Incident impacting a school or educational setting, please download and complete the <a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:w:\/s\/PublicDocs\/Education\/EZLuboagl81Ph0m8gp6gqgsBKmFWT5GFCXxWcB6Y-l5i2g?e=Mdhsh2\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Critical Incident Form<\/strong><\/a> and send it to Children\u2019s Social Care \u2018<strong>Front Door<\/strong>\u2019 (MASH): <a href=\"mailto:multiagencysafeguardinghubsecure-mailbox@devon.gov.uk\">multiagencysafeguardinghubsecure-mailbox@devon.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you require an urgent response, please telephone MASH Tel: 0345 155 1071.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a school or educational setting has experienced a critical incident, it is important that the Local Authority are notified immediately so that any relevant support can be coordinated and put in place as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 03:08:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16448"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16597,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448\/revisions\/16597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}