St Mellitus College is committed to the safeguarding, care and nurture of everyone within the College community.

• Overall responsibility lies with the Dean, Russell Winfield.
• The St Mellitus National Safeguarding Officer is Ali Hogger Gadsby who on behalf of the Dean, has operational responsibility and is the primary contact for concerns. She can be contacted regarding any safeguarding concerns or for further information.
• The Governing Body Safeguarding Representative is Rev. Kate Wharton
• Training queries should be directed to the safeguarding administrator Phoebe Chevassut at smcsafeguarding@stmellitus.ac.uk

If someone is in immediate danger or needs urgent medical attention contact the emergency services on 999.

If the situation you are reporting is not an emergency, please use the safeguarding contacts above.

Alternatively, and out of office hours, please contact the safeguarding team in the Diocese in which you live. Guidance on how to contact them can be found here.

You can also contact Thirtyone:Eight on 0303 033 1111 for advice.

As a Theological Training Institution of the Church of England, St Mellitus College will*:

• Promote a safer environment and culture
• Safely recruit and support all those with any responsibility related to children and vulnerable adults within the Church
• Respond promptly to every safeguarding concern or allegation
• Care pastorally for victims/survivors of abuse and other affected persons
• Care pastorally for those who are the subject of concerns or allegations of abuse and other affected persons
• Respond to those that may pose a present risk to others

These policy commitments are based on our five foundations:

• Gospel
• Human rights and the law
• Core principles
• Good safeguarding practice
• Learning from the past

In particular, St Mellitus College aims to:

• Reduce the risk of significant harm to vulnerable people (children and adults) from abuse or other types of exploitation, whilst listening to and supporting individuals
• Ensure safeguarding is everybody’s business, with this institution playing its part in preventing, detecting and reporting neglect and abuse
• Ensure arrangements are in place locally to protect those least able to protect themselves.

* St Mellitus College has adopted and adheres to the Statement of Safeguarding Principles of the Church of England

The Prevent duty was introduced as part of the UK Government’s Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015. The Act created a statutory duty that specifies public authorities to ‘have due regard to the need to prevent people being drawn into terrorism’. Prevent is one of four strands of the government’s counter-terrorism strategy, and aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism.

Universities, including Alternative Providers, became subject to the Prevent duty on 18th September 2015 and required to assess how they meet their statutory responsibilities. As a Higher Education Alternative Provider, St Mellitus College has located its Prevent Duty under its ongoing Safeguarding responsibilities in a risk-aware approach to have due regard to our Prevent responsibilities.

Current students of the college can locate the college’s Safeguarding and Prevent Policy within our Moodle site. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the National Safeguarding Officer via the contacts listed above.

• NSPCC: 0808 800 5000
• Childline: 0800 1111
• Stop It Now: 0808 1000 900
• NAPAC: 0808 801 0331
• Samaritans: 116 123
• Family Lives: 0808 800 2222
• National Domestic Abuse Helpline: 0808 2000 247
• Men’s Advice Line: 0808 8010 327
• National Careline: 0800 0699 784

Additional Support

Mental health support:

• • https://giveusashout.org/
• • https://www.rethink.org/

Domestic abuse support:

• • https://www.nationaldahelpline...
• • https://www.refuge.org.uk/

Rape and sexual violence support:

• • https://www.thesurvivorstrust....