Schools and safeguarding question

[hiredandsqueak]

Family living opposite, lots of children. Mother and father separated but father spends a lot of time there. For the last three or four months he hasn't been allowed in the house so mother has been sitting in the car with him for hours instead with the children in the house (aged 17 to 4 I think) or occasionally the children in the car for hours whilst parents in the house.
Since the bank holiday father back in the house again. Father is loud, aggressive and threatening. I was woken in the night to lots of screaming and shouting and bellowing. We live on a cul de sac so it is a long distance between mine and theirs. Father was in the face of one of the older girls shouting and following her when she was trying to get away, younger ones were screaming mother was shouting but didn't seem to be intervening. He eventually left. He's been back today he's back in the car with the mother children in the house.
Yes I should have called police but I'm a single parent, two disabled children and daren't and I imagine that that's the reason their neighbours didn't either even though they have men in the house.
I know the school, the address and the older girl's first name. I imagine they could trace her as she is rarely in school year 8 or 9 (none of them attend regularly) and her name is reasonably uncommon. I want to get help for the girl but also need to keep my family safe so if I contacted the school could they help with the information I know?

Google children's services in your area and send them a message anonymously with what you have shared here or the NSPCC who can pass it on to children's services. They will be able to identify the children from their address.

Sorry forgot to add that contacting her school is likely to lead to another level of delay, so better to go straight to children's services

I don't think the school can help directly but they would probably pass on your concerns to social services, so it would be worth contacting so that they are aware.

Next time call the police. You don't have to leave your name or address.

You can also report it anonymously. Call your local MASH/contact centrex

It's not related to school. Just call children's services and give their address and what you heard/saw

You need to report OP.
Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility - don’t just put everything on to the school. School haven’t seen what you have - all they could say was “OP says that she saw…”
YOU need to act. Take responsibility for yourself and report it to children’s services. Tell them what you saw. It is then Children’s Services responsibility to decide whether to investigate further.

Thank you I will report to social care I thought school would report with the full names but I'm happy to report if social care will take it without the surname.

Report to nspcc

The school will be able to identify her, they have everyone's address.

I don't think there is anything wrong with reporting it to the school if that's what makes you feel the most comfortable. I too would be concerned about being identified by the family and if you do it this way it will deflect away from you.

People from the community do report things to schools. They don't say 'that's nothing to do with us'. They will add it to CPOMS as a minimum.