Safeguarding

Child protection is part of the safeguarding process. It focuses on protecting individual children (under 18) identified as suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. This includes child protection procedures which detail how to respond to concerns about a child.

Abuse and neglect come in the following forms:

• Discriminatory abuse
• Domestic violence or abuse
• Financial or material abuse
• Modern slavery
• Neglect or acts of omission
• Organisational or institutional abuse
• Physical abuse
• Psychological or emotional abuse
• Self-neglect
• Sexual abuse

Signs may include changes in behaviour, absence from class or social groups, physical marks or bruising and lack of personal care.

Want to know more about spotting the signs of abuse? Read the Social Care Institute for Excellence’s information on types and indicators of abuse.

Call 999 if there is an immediate risk to life, violence or other emergency.

Contact campus security on 020 8417 6666, where appropriate.

If you have an urgent concern, but it is out-of-hours and there is no immediate risk, contact the Local Authority out-of-hours number on 020 8770 5000.

As soon as you can, fill out a report via our Report + Support.

What happens after reporting an urgent concern

Your concerns will be managed by our Safeguarding Manager within 24 working hours. Your concerns will be taken seriously and investigated.

If you have filled out a report following an out-of-hours and urgent safeguarding concern, the Safeguarding Manager will follow up any necessary referrals. They will liaise with internal services to contact the person at risk within 24 hours.

Any necessary referrals or communication to internal and/or external services will be made by the member of staff dealing with the incident.

Where possible, we will feed back to you following your report.

Less urgent concerns should be reported via the Report + Support form.

What happens next?

Your concerns will be managed by the Safeguarding Manager within 24 working hours. Your concerns will be taken seriously and investigated.

If you have filled out the Report + Support form, following an out of hours and urgent safeguarding concern, the Safeguarding Manager will follow up any necessary referrals. They will also liaise with internal services to make contact with the student within 24 hours.

Any necessary referrals or communication to internal and/or external services will be made by the safeguarding team dealing with the incident.

Where possible, we will feed back to you following your report of a concern. 

Jade Sheridan, Student Safeguarding Manager: [email protected]

Adrian Parry, Prevent Lead and University Secretary: [email protected]