APPRENTICESHIPS TRAINING COURSES SKILLS ANALYSIS ABOUT MGTS NEWS & EVENTS CONTACT Safeguarding Our Apprentices Keeping you safe, protecting you from any potential harm or damage. Home Apprenticeships Learner Area Safeguarding Our Apprentices What is Safeguarding? Safeguarding is the name given for the action that is taken to promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and protect them from any harm. It is our responsibility to keep all our learners safe whilst they are an apprentice with MGTS. We work in conjunction with other agencies to ensure adequate arrangements are in place to identify, assess and support any apprentice who is suffering from, or at risk of, any potential harm. You will attend an awareness training session based on Safeguarding. The purpose of this is to raise your awareness about the responsibilities we have in protecting you and to explain how we do this. Upon completion of the session, we expect you to have a clearer understanding of who you can go to with any concerns about yourself or any learner. MGTS has a person who is the ‘Designated Safeguarding Lead’ who has overall responsibility for the safeguarding of our learners. The lead person decides on the appropriate course of action required when a learner raises a concern. We provide an environment in which you should feel safe, secure, valued and respected. Our main aim is that, as an apprentice, you have the confidence and knowledge how to obtain help and support when required. We also raise awareness with our learners as to how they can keep themselves safe from any harm, abuse or potential radicalisation. As part of the apprentice journey, we also encourage you to advance your critical thinking skills. By discussing challenging topics in a supportive environment, it will help you to understand and safeguard yourselves from harm or extremism. MGTS Safeguarding Team Adrian Lawrence Safeguarding & Prevent Duty Designated Person Jacqui Corkery Safeguarding Officer Equality MGTS has a strong and long-standing commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. Also, we promote a positive environment which celebrates everybody’s differences. The culture we have created at MGTS challenges prejudice and ensure fairness for all our apprentices. We are continually working towards achieving a training environment which challenges any form of discrimination. We aim to make you feel assured that you are part of an organisation that promotes equality for all. During your training with MGTS, you will develop your understanding of the ‘Equality Act 2010’ and how it protects you during your training years and future employment. At MGTS we ensure that you are not treated differently or less favourably on the basis of the specific characteristics which are protected by the Equality Act. These are: age, race, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, gender reassignment and marriage or civil partnership. As one of our learners, you will attend an Equality & Diversity training session. The aim of the session is to raise your awareness and ensure that you know what you can expect from MGTS, by identifying what is expected of you as an apprentice. We aim to develop your confidence in expressing your views and develop the skills required to challenge and address any negative behaviour such as bullying, abuse, harassment or discrimination. It is very important that you can differentiate between the different types of discrimination and know what to do if you experience it in any form. Prevent Duty You will be aware about the terror attacks that have happened globally and within the UK over recent years. There has also been a significant increase in the number of young people being drawn into extreme right-wing groups. The ‘Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015’ introduced the ‘Prevent Duty’ as an attempt to prevent young people or vulnerable adults from becoming radicalised. Radicalisation means supporting terrorism and the extremist ideologies associated with terrorist groups. For our apprentices, this means that MGTS has a duty to safeguard any learner from the possibility of becoming radicalised and forming extremist views. We have safeguards in place, but will carry out sessions with you to identify the risks associated with radicalisation, extremism, forms of abuse, grooming and bullying, including highlighting the online dangers. We know that young people are often targets and are especially vulnerable to online radicalisation. For this reason, it is important for us to talk about Prevent. British Values British Values are defined in the Prevent Strategy as: Democracy Rule of Law Individual Liberty Mutual Respect and Tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs At MGTS: We encourage our learners to identify ways in which they can demonstrate how British Values play a part in our daily lives and why they are important values. We influence decision-making through a democratic process. We have a Learner Voice committee, voted for by you, who attend meetings to represent all learners. We ensure our learners understand that the freedom to practise other faiths and beliefs is protected in law. To accept that people, having different faiths or beliefs to oneself (or having none), should be accepted and tolerated and should not be the cause of any prejudicial or discriminatory behaviour. We identify how the UK laws help to keep us safe in the workplace and within our communities. 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