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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Speaking Up in the Creative Industries – Embedding Standards in Practice
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From the Conference Floor: Real-World Lessons for HR Leaders
Workplace misconduct is evolving, and many HR processes are struggling to keep up. At this year’s Culture Shift Annual Conference, one thing was clear: what worked even a year ago isn’t enough anymore. In this webinar join Gemma McCall (CEO) and Charlotte Taylor (Training Manager and ED&I Specialist) as they bring the most important conversations from the conference floor into a practical session for HR, People and Compliance leaders. You’ll hear what industry experts and legal professionals are seeing right now, and what it means for how you design, communicate and manage your approach to misconduct.
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