This policy protects apprentices, especially those under 18 or vulnerable adults, by outlining legal duties, staff roles, and procedures for identifying and reporting abuse, including radicalisation risks. Key aspects include safer recruitment, safeguarding management, online safety links, and partnerships with authorities, ensuring clear protection strategies in external work environments and here at the academy.

This policy sets out the rules and expectations of behaviour that apprentices are expected to uphold when studying at the academy and staying at the academy partner hotel. It includes attendance expectations along with absence reporting procedures, dress code details, and outlines the links with Safeguarding, Health & Safety and IT acceptable usage.  Our code of conduct directly connects to the Mercedes-Benz wider purpose and Academy core values.

This policy aims to safeguard individuals from radicalisation and extremism as part of the UK government's Prevent strategy. It includes our strategies for identifying risks, raising awareness, and actions taken to protect learners from being drawn into terrorism. The policy includes staff training, reporting concerns, and promoting British values to create a safe and inclusive learning environment.

The Academy must ensure effective filtering and monitoring to protect apprentices and staff using online services. This policy outlines these measures, expectations for safe IT use, including mobile devices, and links to Safeguarding, Prevent, and Data Protection policies. It also provides guidance on raising concerns.

This policy statement is to be viewed and understood alongside the academy’s Online Safety and IT Acceptable Usage Policy but gives extended information in support of apprentices and their parents/guardians, to ensure they are fully informed of how Electronic Evidence may be obtained, used, and stored.

This policy ensures that apprentices, employers, and staff can raise concerns about any aspect of the training or support they receive. It provides a clear, fair, and transparent process for handling complaints, aiming to resolve issues efficiently while maintaining quality standards.