Further Safeguarding Considerations  

If a colleague, student or apprentice learner is also a regulated person, such as someone who is required to be “fit and of good character” by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the university may need to report concerns or findings to the regulator. Such a report may impact an employee's, students or apprentice learners' regulatory status and their ability to continue working in a regulated role. In the first instance, a report to the Local Authority Designated Officer will be made, where a position of trust meeting will then be convened.    

Therefore, the university also sets out a reminder to colleagues who are regulated, that if they encounter any allegations outside of their workplace context, that they are duty bound to inform the university as their employer without delay, even if any conclusions of an investigation are not yet known.    

The same guiding principles apply to students or apprentice learners who are studying a programme that will lead to regulated status, examples include but are not limited to, teaching, nursing, midwifery, paramedic science, pharmacy.   

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