The Sixth Form College is committed to providing a safe and secure environment for all students.  The College has a whole College approach to safeguarding, which ensures that keeping children safe is at the heart of everthin we do and underpins all systems, processes and policies

The College recognises that the welfare of its students is paramount and takes seriously its responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of the young people in its care. The College believes that a child or young person should never experience abuse of any kind and that we have a responsibility to promote the welfare of our students and to keep them safe. We are committed to ensure our safeguarding practices protect all students.

This Procedure details how concerns and allegations in respect of any adults engaged to     work in the College will be dealt with. This includes circumstances where the allegation     did not take place at the College or on College premises. “Work” includes on a voluntary     basis, including as a Governor.  

The College recognises that young people are vulnerable to and capable of abusing their peers sexually.  We consider any allegation of peer on peer sexual abuse seriously and do not tolerate or pass off harmful sexual behaviour as 'banter', 'just having a laugh' or 'part of growing up'.  These allegations are managed in the same way as any other child protection concern and follow the same procedures, including seeking advice and support from other agencies as appropriate.

The College is committed to creating an environment that is free of bullying and harassment, and which provides an environment that protects the dignity of all staff, students, governors and visitors and treats all with respect. The College regards all forms of bullying and harassment as most serious matters.  It is the duty of all staff, students, Governors and visitors to implement and uphold the policy and all have a responsibility to ensure that bullying and harassment have no place in the College.

The Sixth Form College, Colchester is committed to promoting the wellbeing and positive mental health of all members of the College community. The College will strive to improve the mental health environment and culture of the College and to promote, establish and maintain processes, practices and provision that enhance positive mental health and wellbeing.

The College will provide a planned provision of activities, courses and programmes that are inclusive and support all students’ personal career development in line with the requirements of the Gatsby Benchmarks, the College Mission Statement and other College policies relating to student guidance and support. 

This policy sets out how the College supports and makes provision for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

The College recognises that the welfare of students is paramount.  The purpose of this policy is to  ensure that students are protected and to enable staff and volunteers to safeguard and promote the welfare of students whilst promoting a culture which makes the College a safer place to learn.

The College aims to foster a supportive environment between school and adult life in which it provides high quality education and strong pastoral support that meets the needs of 16-19 year olds and leads to them acquiring the necessary qualifications, talents and skills vital for success in their adult lives.  This policy shows how the College will work to promote equality of opportunity in all its work.  

Relevant to entry for the academic year 2019/2020 and thereafter and relating to full time 'daytime' sixth form Year 12 education for 16 year old entrants.

The Accessibility Plan is a statement of intent regarding the College's commitment to developing and maintaining a fully accessible environment, and it affirms the College's dedication to values contained int he Equality Act.  We are committed to challenging negative attitudes about disabilitya nd accessibility and to developing a culture of awareness, tolerance and inclusion.

Procedure to be used in the event of a potential disciplinary, behavioural or conduct issue.

This privacy notice explains how the College collects, uses and shares your personal data, including special categories of data and your rights as an applicant in relation to the personal data we hold and collect.  This concerns our processing of personal data of all applicants for paid employment, volunteers positions, Governors, work experience and for peripatetic workers.

The College has installed CCTV to provide a safe and secure environment for students, staff and visitors to the College and to protect the College site and property.  This policy sets out the College's approach to the use of CCTV and what information we collect, how it is used and how it is stored/ deleted.

The Governors and staff recognise that global issues are an important part of the lives of our students living in a world where economies are increasingly interdependent and global communication is a daily reality.

The College is committed to working with students from a variety of cultural, linguistic and social backgrounds. The policy provides a framework which supports these values, both in terms of access to languages and also in terms of multilingualism.

The Sixth Form College, Colchester, specialises in providing high quality full-time, general academic education programmes of study for 16-19 year olds, combined with excellent pastoral and safeguarding care, personal development opportunities and a fantastic range of wider opportunities including for work-related learning and preparation for progression.

The College must be confident that students taking part in offsite activities/educational visits understand their responsibilities on these visits and that they will always act in a mature and responsible way in order to bring credit to themselves and to College.  This code outlines these standards.

The College aims to deliver and outstanding service to all students, staff, parents, carers and other stakeholder in all aspects of our work.  We recognise that from time to time an individual may feel that the College has fallen short of these high standards of education and service.  This procedure is designed to ensure a consistent and open approach to the handling and resolution of complaints.

The College seeks to act in the public interest and achieve and maintain the highest standards of probity and honesty in all its procedures and operations.  It is important to the College that any suspected fraud, misconduct, malpractice or wrongdoing by workers or employees of the College is reported and properly dealt with.