We all have the right to be, and feel safe, from all forms of abuse. The safety and well-being of everyone at the college is important to us.

Thurrock Adult Community College has a moral and statutory duty to ensure that it promotes safeguarding and the welfare of its learners, staff, volunteers, and visitors. 

This includes the need to prevent individuals from being drawn into terrorism.

We will always treat any information you share with us as confidential. However, if you or someone else is being abused or is in danger, we have a duty of care to report it and must take appropriate action.

British Values

Thurrock Adult Community College (TACC) promotes British Values to all our learners as part of their learning experience.

As part of our safeguarding and Prevent Duty commitments, alongside the Equality Act 2010 all staff and volunteers have a duty to demonstrate and help develop values which underpin an awareness of social and moral responsibility in modern Britain. Our staff are encouraged and supported to use every opportunity to promote and reinforce shared British Values along with creating respectful space for open debate.

British Values, defined by the government in their 2011 Prevent Strategy are:

• Democracy;
• The Rule of Law;
• Individual Liberty;
• Mutual Respect;
• Freedom of Speech;
• Tolerance of those of different faiths and beliefs

This includes complying with the Equality Act 2010 by not discriminating against the following nine characteristics:

• Age;
• Disability;
• Gender reassignment;
• Marriage and civil partnership;
• Pregnancy and maternity;
• Race;
• Religion or belief;
• Sex;
• Sexual orientation

As a member of the college you have rights but with these also come responsibilities to make sure everybody can study or work safely, as outlined in the enrolment form, on the Learner Code Of Conduct in Google Classroom, plus the new digital Learner Padlet. At the start of your course, you will contribute to the setting and keeping of collaborative ground rules agreed by individual class members, underpinned by the above values.

TACC will not tolerate abusive behaviour towards any member of staff, volunteer, student or visitor. More information about feeling safe and safeguarding can be found above.

Useful Information

• Staying Safe Online