12) Bullying, The College is committed to Continue to make use of social media and other Zoe Ongoing Discrimination and preventing, minimising and communications to continue to communicate the Shackleton / Harassment: managing the occurrence of stance on a zero tolerance approach to bullying, Erika Your organisation does bullying, discrimination and harassment and discrimination. We have developed Montgomery not tolerate bullying, harassment. The Marketing team communication through Twitter, in particular. We / Marketing discrimination and works closely with the Diversity also use the communication tool in Moodle to Team harassment. Handling Group to promote key EDI messages communicate key messages/information. procedures are effectively in different ways, e.g. through the implemented and ‘jellybean’ postcard and social understood by staff at all media, and informative guides for levels. different stakeholders. The Anti-Bullying and Harassment The Equality & Diversity Team, in liaison with the Zoe Ongoing Policy and Procedure was revised in Director for Safeguarding and IT Support, have Shackleton / Developing December 2012, as part of working created a new email link for students to log a bullying Sonia Ross - 3 towards achieving the BIG Award incident electronically using the work ‘Bullying’ in the Zoe Ongoing (Bullying Intervention Group Award). address box. This allows Student Support Managers / Shackleton/ The policy has been simplified to members of the Safeguarding Team to respond Sonia Ross/ Strand make it accessible at a glance and directly. We are continuing to utilise this email link Colin the abridged version is available as a while exploring other means of encouraging students Knightley/ IT page on the College’s VLE. to contact staff according to need. We use the Support CPOMS reporting system for monitoring safeguarding Team incidents, which include bullying.
Strand 3 - Developing 12) Bullying, Discrimination and Harassment: Your organisation does not tolerate bullying, discrimination and harassment. Handling procedures are effectively implemented and understood by staff at all levels. The College is committed to preventing, minimising and managing the occurrence of bullying, discrimination and harassment. The Marketing team works closely with the Diversity Group to promote key EDI messages in different ways, e.g. through the ‘jellybean’ postcard and social media, and informative guides for different stakeholders. The Anti-Bullying and Harassment Policy and Procedure was revised in December 2012, as part of working towards achieving the BIG Award (Bullying Intervention Group Award). The policy has been simplified to make it accessible at a glance and the abridged version is available as a page on the College’s VLE. Continue to make use of social media and other communications to continue to communicate the stance on a zero tolerance approach to bullying, harassment and discrimination. We have developed communication through Twitter, in particular. We also use the communication tool in Moodle to communicate key messages/information. The Equality & Diversity Team, in liaison with the Director for Safeguarding and IT Support, have created a new email link for students to log a bullying incident electronically using the work ‘Bullying’ in the address box. This allows Student Support Managers / members of the Safeguarding Team to respond directly. We are continuing to utilise this email link while exploring other means of encouraging students to contact staff according to need. We use the CPOMS reporting system for monitoring safeguarding incidents, which include bullying. Zoe Shackleton / Erika Montgomery / Marketing Team Zoe Shackleton / Sonia Ross Zoe Shackleton/ Sonia Ross/ Colin Knightley/ IT Support Team Ongoing Ongoing Ongoing