A question about safeguarding training in HE

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I'm a secondary school governor so have had "safeguarding in schools" training. One of the principles is that nobody working in a school should ever promise a child confidentiality, because all disclosures need to be reported to the designated safeguarding staff. Do student-facing staff in universities have similar training?

(I do work in HE, but in a non-student-facing role, and the question is relevant to a project I'm working on).

At my uni all academic advisors have received a handbook and the need to report any threat to life, illegality or violation of the academic code is discussed. Naturally the life in question could be the student’s own. The threat need not be an acute emergency.

But our students are adults and the threshold for violating their confidence is rightly higher than the threshold for intervening on behalf of a child. It is a fine line

I think most unis have a safeguarding policy - you should be able to search on their websites.
Certainly any that bid for public sector contracts, or has apprenticeships will as having a policy is basic part of the due diligence process.

My team works with under 18s and we have the same safeguarding guidance as schools, which we also apply to any mature learners we work with.

For university students it’s different, we still follow safeguarding but they’re over 18 so there may well be circumstances where they disclose things but it doesn’t need to go further than us. We have a pastoral responsibility and work closely with the students involved in our work so it may well be different for other teams