New City College Highlighted In Ground Breaking Report For Its Work Keeping Students Safe.

New City College Havering Sixth Form is featured in a ground-breaking report being presented to the Government which highlights all the innovative work that colleges around the UK do on a daily basis.

 The college, in Wingletye Lane, Hornchurch, is being used in a report titled Mission Accepted: The Role of Colleges Across the Government’s Five Missions, which has been written and published by the Association of Colleges (AoC) in a bid to secure better funding for further education.

 The sixth form’s outstanding work to educate and inform students in all aspects of keeping safe has been chosen as the main focus of a film being presented as part of the AoC’s report, which was launched on Monday December 9. 

The AoC was so impressed with all the events and activities that New City College organises along the theme of keeping students safe that they attended the Havering Sixth Form Campus and NCC’s Tower Hamlets Campus to film the events and interview students and staff.

Watch the film here:

At the Staying Safe events students can meet police officers and talk about their fears as well as being informed about the dangers of drugs, county lines, drinking, vaping, smoking, anti-social behaviour and gambling, from a wide range of external agencies who attend.

They can get advice from experts on topics such as road safety, drink spiking, knife crime, domestic violence, mental health, cyberbullying, consent and relationship boundaries, grooming, coercive behaviour and sexual harassment.

This collaborative effort between New City College and a number of external community organisations provides students with valuable insights, tools and resources to be more aware of their own safety and well-being and what to do in situations where they may feel vulnerable, such as on their journey to and from college and when they are on a night out.

The events are aligned with an extensive tutorial programme where empowering messages are enforced to all students in the classroom setting, with special emphasis at each campus on the issues within their own communities.

Emma Wood, NCC Group Head of Tutorial and Enrichment said: “The feedback we get from students after these events and tutorial sessions shows the power of what we are doing and also the importance of this work. 

“But we need the funding to carry on promoting a safer future for all. Unless we get the funding, the backing and the acknowledgement that what we are doing is so important, these issues won’t go away.”

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