SAFEGUARDING & PREVENT

 SAFEGUARDING

• Promotion of your health and development
• Ensuring your safety and care
• Ensuring you are offered the best life chances
• Protection from abuse and neglect
• Prevention of bullying and harassment.

The term ‘safeguarding’ embraces both child and adults at risk, protection and preventative approaches to keep our students, staff and visitors safe. Safeguarding encompasses students’ health and safety, welfare and well-being.

Fairfield Trust is committed to safeguarding all children, young people and vulnerable adults. We believe that all children, young people and vulnerable adults have an equal right to protection from abuse, regardless of their age, race, religion, ability, gender, language, background or sexuality and consider the welfare of the child/young person/vulnerable adult is paramount.

We will take every reasonable step to ensure that children, young people and vulnerable adults are protected on all of our sites and in any setting that we are supporting them. All suspicions and allegations of abuse will be taken seriously and responded to swiftly and appropriately.

We enable all our staff and those who work with us to make informed and confident decisions regarding safeguarding. We expect everyone (staff, trustees, partners, volunteers and anyone working on behalf of the College) to have read, understood and adhere to this policy and associated policies and related procedures.

Trustees and staff, including volunteers, at Fairfield College (FC) are required to support the following philosophy statement in accordance with the principles contained within the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998 and Keeping Children Safe in Education (2020).

All individuals have the right to:

• A safe learning environment
• Confidentiality in respect of personal information, if this does not infringe the rights of other people
• Access information relating to them and their circumstances
• Make informed choices about their circumstances
• The right to the protection of the law and access to the judicial process

A full list of our policies can be found HERE

If you, as a student at the College have any concern about your well-being, safety or rights, then you should:

• Talk to your tutor
• Contact one of the Designated Safeguarding Officers – see below for details or refer to the posters found on notice boards around the college.