Please complete and submit this form to register for the Elevate programme.

After signing up, you will receive an email with further details about the Elevate programme.

If you have any questions, please contact a member of the AccessHE Uni Connect team:

t: 020 7391 0688 | e: AHEuniconnecthub@londonhigher.ac.uk

AccessHE is committed to ensuring the safety of all participants in our online events and in person events. As part of the registration process, you will be asked to agree to our and online safeguarding Terms and Conditions. For more information, please see our Child Safeguarding Policy.

AccessHE will take the following steps to ensure the safety of all young people we work with:

• We will conduct a full risk assessment for all activities.

• We will ensure that for all in person events and activities, the adult to child ratio will be 10:1. Adults can include AccessHE and London Higher staff, as well as staff and student ambassadors from member HEIs and partner institutions

• Before attending any AccessHE event, attendees will be asked to consent to a relevant photo and video consent statement.

• In addition to the London Higher staff code of conduct, staff working with children and young people will:
o Prioritise the welfare for children and young people at AccessHE events
o Follow the AccessHE Child Safeguarding policies and procedures.
o Model good behaviour for the children and young people to follow.
o Challenge all unacceptable behaviour.
o Report all allegations and suspicions of abuse following the AccessHE Child Safeguarding policies and procedures.
o Treat all children and young people fairly without prejudice or discrimination.
o Understand that children and young people are individuals with individual needs.
o Respect differences in gender, sexual orientation, culture, race, ethnicity, disability and religious belief systems between yourself and others, and appreciate that all participants bring something valuable and different to the group/organisation.

AccessHE will take the following steps to ensure the safety of all young people we work with in an online capacity:

• We will ensure a minimum of two adults (AccessHE staff and/or staff from our partner organisations) are involved in the running of online activity

• We will only use official AccessHE/London Higher social media accounts when running remote sessions and we will not share personal details with young people over any communication platform

• We will seek parental or carer consent to participate in online activities where appropriate

• We will operate a registration process for all online events to ensure participants are aware in advance of session rules, and have received platform instructions as well as online safety information from us prior to the event starting

• We will ensure that the chat/messaging functions of any communication platforms we use are monitored and that measures are in place to prevent young people from being contacted directly, either by other participants or by the meeting hosts

• When running online activities via platforms such as Zoom, we will operate a virtual waiting room to ensure only users who have registered are admitted, and we will lock rooms once events have commenced to ensure they are private.

Please provide details of a carer or emergency contact below. Once registered, we will write to this contact to complete a consent form.

AccessHE will undertake a review of the Elevate programme, in order to understand your experiences of it.

In order to do this, we collect and process data you provide when signing up, for example your postcode and your gender. We also collect your feedback on Elevate via short surveys that we ask you to complete at the start and end of courses in the programme, and optional interviews with a member of staff from AccessHE during the programme. This information will help us to understand the effectiveness of the programme on students from different backgrounds.

AccessHE may publish the findings of the research and share the report with reputable and reliable third parties, however any information relating to you will be aggregated (i.e. combined with other user data) and anonymised, and will not be provided in a way which identifies you.

The survey data we collect from you is held for one year and destroyed after that. The personal data stored on the website will remain there until you contact us to disable and delete your account, or until the end of the programme, whichever occurs first.

To read our full privacy policy, please visit https://www.londonhigher.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Privacy-Policy-AccessHE-Uni-Connect-Outreach-Hub.pdf, and to find out more about AccessHE you can visit our website: www.accesshe.ac.uk.

If you have questions about any aspect of the research, please contact Michelle Anson, Uni Connect Outreach Coordinator, on AHEuniconnecthub@londonhigher.ac.uk.