Safeguarding at St Piers College
St Piers College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
What is a safeguarding concern?
Safeguarding means protecting people's health, wellbeing and human rights, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect.
Therefore we need to know immediately if there are any concerns that are affecting a student’s health, wellbeing and human rights.
The following are concerns that must be raised to the safeguarding team:
- Allegations, disclosures or concerns about physical, sexual, emotional, institutional, financial and discriminatory abuse
- Neglect
- Unexplained injuries and bruising
- Bullying
- Medication misadministration
- Peer on peer assaults
- E-safety concerns including cyber bullying, online grooming, sexting and grooming.
Safeguarding Team
Executive Lead - strategic responsibility for safeguarding across Young Epilepsy
Lead Governor
Safeguarding and Compliance Manager - operational lead for safeguarding across Young Epilepsy
Safeguarding Officers - There are a number of Safeguarding Officers who provide an on call support service to all staff 24hrs a day 365 days a year regarding any safeguarding concerns.
Reporting concerns or allegations
If you are concerned about a student’s welfare, or need to report unexplained injuries, bruising, a disclosure or poor practice of any sort, please contact the Safeguarding Manager or speak to the Safeguarding Officer on call (their number can be sought from any Young Epilepsy staff).
Contact during office hours
Alex Dave
Safeguarding and Compliance Manager
T: 01342 831218
My son is a changed person. He never wanted to engage with staff or his peers, often he was non compliant and would not interact in social activities or undertake tasks. He is now so much more proactive, he has learnt home skills where he undertakes tasks using his own initiative either with minimum prompting or totally unsupported. 
