Academy Guardian Rights, Sensitive Reports, and Escalation

This document explains how Academy handles guardian-linked participation, sensitive reports, and escalation pathways.

Purpose

Academy is designed to support guardian visibility where appropriate without eliminating the need for protected reporting pathways. This document explains how those two goals coexist.

Guardian rights

Where Academy participation is guardian-linked, guardians may have visibility into relevant participation, scheduling, and policy-linked interactions.

Guardian-linked visibility is intended to:

• support safety and transparency
• clarify responsibility and consent
• make oversight explicit rather than informal

Limits of ordinary visibility

Ordinary visibility is not always appropriate for every report or every safety scenario.

Some reports require restricted handling because immediate broad visibility could:

• place a participant at risk
• interfere with review
• expose a sensitive safeguarding issue prematurely

Sensitive reports

Sensitive reports include situations involving:

• coercion
• boundary violations
• harmful conduct
• abuse concerns
• guardian-linked or household-linked risk
• situations requiring a safeguarding review before normal disclosure

Sensitive reports must be handled through a documented safeguarding pathway rather than the ordinary review path.

Escalation model

Academy must support a documented escalation path for:

• review
• intervention
• restricted handling
• further escalation when required by policy or law

This escalation path must be attributable, reviewable, and bounded by the human-first charter.

Human-first requirement

Guardian-linked participation does not override the system’s duty to protect human beings. Where ordinary visibility conflicts with documented safeguarding requirements, the safeguarding path takes priority.

Related documents

• Academy Safeguarding and Minor Protection
• Academy Interaction Contract
• Privacy
• Terms