Safeguarding / Prevent

Safeguarding looks at keeping children, young people and adults safe from a wide range of potential harm, and puts procedures into place to prevent, as well as acting to stop harm.

Child protection looks at recognising abuse and neglect and acting to stop it.

Abuse is an action by another person that goes against someone’s human or civil rights. It can take many forms: Physical, Mental, Emotional, Sexual, or Financial.

Examples include:

Hitting, slapping, pushing, or rough handling

Depriving someone of food, clothing or warmth

Sexual activity without consent

Misuse or theft of money, possessions or property

Shouting, swearing or using degrading language

Cyberbullying, by text, social networking sites, emails

Neglecting someone’s medical or physical needs

Abuse can happen anywhere: at home, in a residential or nursing home,
hospital, day centre, or in a public place. Some kinds of abuse are also criminal offences.  

The Prevent Duty (The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015)

All FE providers have a duty to safeguard their Learners and Apprentices. A new term ‘The Prevent Duty" is being used within safeguarding to ensure young people are kept safe and within the law. The strategy is not about preventing Wise Origin College Apprentices from having political and religious views and concerns, but about supporting them to use those concerns or act on them in non-extremist ways.

Section 21 of the CTS Act 2015 places a duty on Training Providers, listed in Schedule 3 of the Act, to have “due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”.

What is Extremism?

The Government has defined extremism as “vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values, including democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of different faiths and beliefs”. This also includes calls for the death of members of the British armed forces.

British Values are embedded in everything that we do – at Wise Origin College, we actively engage learners in being tolerant, kind and supportive citizens ready for their future, and do not tolerate any kind of discriminatory behaviour.

British values are defined as “democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs”. Training providers are expected to encourage young people to respect other people with particular regard to the protected characteristics set out in the Equality Act 2010.

If there are concerns about the vulnerability of someone being radicalised, this will be reported to the appropriate channels for support and guidance.

We are spending more time in a virtual world, whether it’s for work or socially.  While technology opens the door to a wide range of opportunities, at WOC we want to ensure that all our staff and learners know how to stay safe online.

You can read our Student Guide to Online Safety here.