Safeguarding

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At Accrington & Rossendale College everybody is committed to providing a safe and supportive environment where students feel safe and receive effective care and safeguarding guidance and support. The wellbeing of students, staff and visitors is of paramount importance.

Our Safeguarding Team are based on sit at the Accrington & Rossendale College campus, and supports on a full range of welfare issues. We believe that safeguarding is everybody’s responsibility, and foster this culture across the College. Staff have access to professional support when needed to provide interventions, advice and guidance where necessary.

Part of the College’s safeguarding duty includes protecting vulnerable individuals from the risk of radicalisation and extremism. This is called the ‘Prevent Duty’. Prevent is a government initiative aimed at stopping people becoming involved with or supporting violent extremism.

What we do as a college:

Have clear policies and procedures in place
Employ a designated safeguarding lead and prevent lead, and highly trained safeguarding professionals
Make sure all our staff working for, or on behalf of the College, are suitable to work with young people carrying out all the relevant checks
Actively encourage students and staff to raise any concerns they have
Take all concerns seriously, act upon them, and offer full support both through College and specialist services
Train all our staff in safeguarding and Prevent at a level appropriate to their role on an ongoing basis
Tutorials covering a range of subject areas around safeguarding

You can contact a member of the safeguarding team at Accrington & Rossendale College by calling 01254 389933 or 07803658861

To read more about our Safeguarding policy, please click here

Safeguarding Services

There are many organisations and agencies who can provide confidential support and advice during this difficult time – these include the agencies below: