Sector guidance to address staff student sexual misconduct in Higher Education
Catch up on this webinar to hear from The 1752 Group and McAllister Olivarius about their Sector Guidance.
The guidance includes recommendations for reporting, investigation and decision-making procedures relating to student complaints of staff sexual misconduct in Higher Education institutions. You can read it here.
The discussion, chaired by Gemma McCall, co-founder of Culture Shift covers how you can implement the recommendations every step of the way to form an end to end procedure which is fit for purpose.
She is joined by Anna Bull, co-founder of The 1752 Group and a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Portsmouth, and Georgina Calvert Lee, Head of UK Practice and Senior Counsel at McAllister Olivarius.
The webinar covers best practices in each of these six key areas:
- Initial submission of complaint and risk assessment
- The investigation
- The decision-making procedure
- The review process
- Confidentiality of outcomes and protection of the complainant
- Data recording and management
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Speak Up Culture & Evidencing Compliance for Your Ofsted Inspection
Join Stefan Jordan, Colchester Institute's Director of Inclusion and Wellbeing, with Culture Shift Co-Founder, Gemma McCall, as they break down what Ofsted's new further education and skills inspection toolkit actually expects from you on speaking up, follow-through, and staff protection.
Feeling inspired?
Take the first step toward preventative misconduct management with a demo of our Report + Support™ platform. We can show you how to breakdown reporting barriers with anonymous 2-way messaging, and how to act before things escalate with name-matching and pattern-spotting across our analytics dashboard.
