Safeguarding

Safeguarding at City College Plymouth - safe learners in a safe College

City College Plymouth wants to provide a safe and secure environment for all of its students and the wider College community. The College takes its responsibilities for the safety and well-being of students very seriously and has developed a range of measures to meet these responsibilities including a “zero tolerance” policy towards bullying.

What is safeguarding?

The College uses the term ‘safeguarding’ to describe what it does to create a safe environment. Safeguarding is a wide reaching term, the definition that the College uses is:

“Safeguarding is more than protecting children and vulnerable adults from deliberate harm (child protection). It includes issues for further education colleges such as student health and safety, bullying, racist or homophobic abuse, harassment and discrimination, meeting the needs of students with medical conditions, providing first aid, drug and substance misuse, educational and off-site visits, intimate care, internet safety, issues which may be specific to a local area or population (for example gang activity), radicalization for violent extremism and college security.”

Bullying is included in the definition of safeguarding but there is a particular definition that the College uses to support its “zero tolerance” policy which is:

“Bullying is behaviour usually, but not always, repeated over time that hurts, intimidates or humiliates another individual or group either physically or emotionally. One person or a group can bully others. Bullying is usually identified by a deliberate intention to hurt or humiliate, an imbalance of power between the bully(ies) and the victim and it is usually persistent.”

Bullying includes name calling, taunting, mocking, making offensive comments, kicking, hitting, pushing, threatening, inappropriate touching, spreading hurtful or untruthful rumours, excluding an individual from a group or making someone act against their will.

Click on the links below to learn more about each area:

• College Safeguarding Policies
• The Safeguarding Team