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The University will be closed from and including Friday 18 April until Wednesday 23 April 2025.

University IT systems (such as myUWE, Blackboard, InfoHub and ARCPOW) will still be available during this time and while most other services on campus will be unavailable, some areas are remaining open. You can find out more information here.

If you are a student and you need health and wellbeing support, please check our information about support available over the holiday period.

A “child” is anyone who has not yet reached their 18th birthday. The fact that a child has reached 16 years of age, is living independently or is in further education does not change their status or entitlements to services or protection.   

 

An "adult with care and support needs" or “adult at risk” – to whom safeguarding duties apply – is a person aged 18 or over who:   

  • has needs for care and support (whether or not the local authority is meeting any of those needs); • is experiencing, or is at risk of, abuse or neglect; and   
  • as a result of those needs is unable to protect himself or herself against the abuse or neglect or the risk of it.   

 

A “safeguarding allegation relating to a child” is an allegation that a person has:  

  • behaved in a way that has harmed a child, or may have harmed a child   
  • possibly committed a criminal offence against or related to a child   
  • behaved towards a child or children in a way that indicates they may pose a risk of harm to children. 

There are two ways you can tell us what happened