Your safety and wellbeing are a top priority at Bath College.
Students may face many different personal challenges while they learn.
Our Welfare and Safeguarding Officers provide a confidential, non-judgemental one-to-one service, offering early help and ongoing support to promote positive wellbeing.
Support is available for:
The team collaborates with other college departments to identify barriers to learning and offer individual support plans to help students remain engaged in education.
Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility at Bath College.
Alongside regular compulsory awareness workshops to inform all staff members, our Welfare and Safeguarding Officers, Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads (DDSL), and Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) uphold systems and processes to protect students from harm, abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
We:
We maintain a strong safeguarding culture across the college, where students feel confident to report concerns and know they are taken seriously.
Our approach is preventative and responsive. The Welfare and Safeguarding team contribute to student development by promoting:
We work with teaching staff, support services, and external partners to guarantee a coordinated, holistic approach to student support.
Students can access support at any time during their studies, either through self-referral or through staff, parents, or carers.
All support is handled sensitively. Information is shared on a need-to-know basis only to maintain safety and wellbeing.
Are you worried about your safety? Please follow these quick steps:
Speak to a teacher, tutor, or any member of staff you feel comfortable with and trust.
Email the Safeguarding Team at safe@bathcollege.ac.uk
Bath College offers counselling for students partnered with Off the Record. It is available for learners under 25.
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) accredits all three of the counsellors who work with Bath College students. And all counsellors follow the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice.
The Student Counselling Service provide students with a private space to speak about their problems.
Counselling can help with:
If you want help with any of the above, send a confidential text to 07791 766784 or email studentcounsellingservice@bathcollege.ac.uk.
You will get an appointment within one month of contacting the counselling team.
Our Nurse runs drop in sessions for students to seek confidential advice on any aspect of their health. This can range from stop smoking support to healthy eating advice or contraception to sexual health advice.
We also run a number of awareness events over the year as part of our personal development provision which gives students the opportunity to find out more about specific well-being topics.
You can access the College Nurse through the Student Welfare team, by clicking here to email the team or by messaging 07976 916058.
Our mentors can help you find useful services at college and in the local area. This includes:
The Welfare Team can give you mentoring.
Emailing safe@bathcollege.ac.uk or visit the Welfare Offices at the City Centre Campus or Somer Valley Campus.
If you are a full-time student, you will have a personal tutor. This tutor will:
Part-time students
If you are a part-time student, your tutor will give you the same support as a full-time student. However, you may not get as many written reviews as a full-time student.
Parent information
Tutors also help students with personal issues that may affect their studies. You will be invited to meet your child's tutor at the start of the course.
This is to help you find out more about college life and the course they will study.
If you have questions about safeguarding at Bath College, please contact the Safeguarding team: