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CPOMS entries/process

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Findingpeace28 · 25/09/2022 16:04

Hi all,
A bit of advice/insight please. I heard of CPOMs for the first time this year. Since then, I’ve seen some of the entries made about my children, mainly my older son. Most of the entries were news to me and I’m wondering if anyone knows what the correct process is for safeguarding:

  1. should the school have notified me of concerns recorded on CPOMs and recorded my response?
  2. what are my options if I want to escape a complaint regarding how the school is using CPOMs because I personally don’t see how it can be right to record incidents surreptitiously when there could have been a perfectly innocent explanation for their concern/observation.
  3. what is the guidance regarding informing parents about this system?

Thank you in advance for any help.

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Lougle · 25/09/2022 20:38

Findingpeace28 · 25/09/2022 17:27

Can I ask you if you’d record a parent calling school to ask about a poem about World War 2? My younger son came home with the poem which had a lot of references about death and war so I was, almost alarmed. So I called school and said I didn’t think it was age-appropriate (my son was in year 5 at this point). But the teacher called me back and explained they’d been teaching them about the world wars (which I didn’t know is in the primary school curriculum as I didn’t grow up in this country) and that they give them context etc. so I said okay and left it; but this phone call was recorded in CPOMS… what would be a safeguarding concern over that?

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I recently did a Subject Access Request for DD2. Everything was documented on CPOMS. It's no bad thing and in our case, it helped to prove that she wasn't coping at school.

Presumably, you've been able to go through all the entries and explain them to the social worker?

Skelligsfeathers · 25/09/2022 22:50

And if as you say school didn't alert social services then they have become involved by some other means. Which means a phone call about a ww2 poem is irrelevant.

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