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The CyberMentors Confidentiality Statement
Conversations with CyberMentors are strictly confidential, which means they will not discuss what you tell them with anybody else. However, if they are worried about your safety or your safety within your family, the CyberMentor will need to tell a trusted adult about it. If they need to do that, they will always try and let you know beforehand.
What this means
Online, the trusted adult will be a Beatbullying counsellor and offline (if you are being mentored in your school) the adult might be a teacher looking after the scheme in your school or perhaps a teacher working in Pastoral Care in your school.
All CyberMentors are trained to tell a trusted adult if they are worried about you (perhaps because you have told them you are at real risk and are being severely bullied, abused or not being looked after properly). This is because Beatbullying believes that your safety both offline and online is extremely important, so by telling an adult, they are protecting you and trying to get you the help you need. This is why CyberMentors will always read the confidentiality statement at the beginning of any mentoring. Beatbullying trains the CyberMentors very carefully to understand what they can and can’t keep to themselves.
If you do not agree to the Confidentiality Statement, then you must not proceed with being mentored online by a CyberMentor.
Please read the page on Protecting You to find out what we mean about your safety.
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