Arrangements have been made to make sure that you are safe at our Centres.
If you feel you are not safe for any reason, for example through verbal or physical abuse or you have been discriminated against, please tell your tutor or the Centre Manager, who will investigate to ensure your safety.
Adult abuse is defined as “a violation of an individual’s human and civil rights by any other person or persons”. Abuse can take many forms, some of which are:
- Discriminatory abuse – for example abuse on grounds of someone’s race, disability, gender, sexuality, religious belief, age, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity or sexual orientation
- Physical abuse – hitting, pushing, burning, kicking or restraint.
- Psychological abuse – verbal abuse, humiliation, bullying or the use of threats, including cyber bullying, blaming, isolation or removal from services or supportive networks.
- Financial abuse – illegal or improper use of a person’s property, money, pension book, bank account or other belongings.
- Sexual abuse – direct or indirect sexual activity where the vulnerable person cannot or does not give their consent, including rape and sexual assault.
- Neglect – not providing a person with the essential care they need, thus causing them to suffer, and failure to provide access to appropriate health, social care or educational
services. - Institutional abuse – which is poor professional practice, including neglect, and which can take the form of isolated incidents or pervasive ill treatment including gross misconduct. This form of abuse is about organisations, their employees and their employees and working practices failing to achieve expected standards including recognition of vulnerable groups.
Reporting
Any individual who is subject to or witnesses abuse, or hears of it, or learns of a potentially abusive situation, must report it to either their tutor, the Adult Education Manager or to a Safeguarding Lead. It is never someone else’s responsibility.
Adult Education can be contacted on 01223 264721 or [email protected] The Safeguarding Lead at Comberton is Jennie Girling 01223 262503 [email protected]
The Safeguarding Lead at Cambridgeshire Skills is Rachel Carpenter 07816926912 [email protected]