Welfare/Safeguarding

OFFICE HOURS EMERGENCY CONTACT DETAILS

Peter Grantham
M: 01332 738625
E:  Peter.Grantham@bluelionta.com

Harj Dhanjal
M: 07970 748019
E: info@bluelionta.com

Reporting Safeguarding Issue

Keeping All Apprentices, Employers and Staff Safe

If you have any concerns about your safeguarding, wellbeing or have any concerns about someone’s safety or involvement in extremism or terrorist actions then please contact us immediately by:

Contacting your tutor/assessor, or our Designated Safeguarding Lead.

Our learners are at the heart of everything we do. They are our greatest asset, helping us to stand out and become the clear choice for employers in sustaining a creative approach to marketing and digital media through our apprenticeship programmes, and/or to helping them drive a culture of continuous improvement.

Safeguarding refers to the process, practice and culture embedded within an organisation to create a safe environment where children, young people and adults at risk are free from all form of harm, abuse or neglect.

Safeguarding is an all-encompassing term used to describe many aspects of keeping our apprentices and learners safe, which includes:

  • neglect
  • physical abuse
  • sexual abuse
  • emotional abuse
  • bullying, including online bullying and prejudice-based bullying
  • racist, disability and homophobic or transphobic abuse
  • gender-based violence/violence against women and girls or men and boys
  • radicalisation and/or extremist behaviour
  • modern-day slavery
  • mental health and well-being
  • peer-on-peer/child-on-child abuse
  • the impact of new technologies on sexual behaviour, for example youth produced sexual imagery (‘sexting’) and accessing pornography
  • issues that may be specific to a local area or population, for example gang activity and youth violence
  • domestic violence
  • female genital mutilation
  • honour-based violence
  • forced marriage
  • child sexual exploitation (CSE)
  • cuckooing
  • financial abuse

Prevent is about safeguarding people and communities from the threat of terrorism. Prevent is part of CONTEST, the Government’s counter-terrorism strategy. It aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism and violent extremism.

‘British values’ are defined under the Prevent duty as:

  • Democracy: A culture built upon freedom and equality, where everyone is aware of their rights and responsibilities.
  • The rule of law: The need for rules to make a happy, safe and secure environment to live and work.
  • Mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs understanding that we all don’t share the same beliefs and values. Respecting those values, ideas and beliefs of others whilst not imposing our own onto them.
  • Individual liberty means each of us having the freedom to make our own choices and do what we want – within reason. As long as we respect the other three British values and the rights of others.

The Prevent duty also includes encouraging learners to respect other people with particular regard to the protected characteristics of the Equality Act (2010).

The nine protected characteristics specified in the Equality Act are:

  1. Age
  2. Disability
  3. Gender reassignment
  4. Marriage and civil partnership
  5. Pregnancy and maternity
  6. Race
  7. Religion or belief
  8. Sex
  9. Sexual orientation

A child is defined as any persons under the age of 18.

An adult at risk is defined as any person over the age of 18 and at risk of abuse or neglect because of their need for support or personal circumstance.