Protect people, culture, and reputation across creative industries
In the creative industries, workplace environments are often fast-paced, project-based, and shaped by strong creative hierarchies and informal power structures, making them particularly vulnerable to bullying, harassment, sexual misconduct, and misuse of influence. These risks are increasingly under scrutiny from regulators, commissioners, and industry bodies, including expectations set out in the CIISA Standards. Report + Support™ provides a centralised workforce reporting system that helps organisations capture concerns early, manage cases consistently, and evidence proactive action to protect people, production integrity, and reputation.
Encourage early reporting
Give staff, freelancers, and contractors a safe way to report concerns where fear of career impact or reputational damage can suppress disclosure, enabling earlier intervention before issues escalate.
Improve visibility
Real-time reporting provides visibility of risks across productions and commissioning structures, helping organisations meet CIISA expectations and evidence “all reasonable steps” to prevent and address misconduct.
A better way to manage misconduct in creative environments
Managing workplace behaviour in the creative industries requires clarity, consistency, and accessible reporting across diverse and often temporary teams. Report + Support™ provides a centralised reporting and case management system that ensures every concern is captured and handled appropriately.
Anonymous and named reporting options to support safe disclosure across all roles
Centralised case management to track concerns across productions and teams
Two-way anonymous messaging to support sensitive and complex cases
Report linking and pattern recognition to identify repeat behaviours or individuals of concern
Smarter workforce insight for healthier creative workplaces
Creative organisations must be able to identify and respond to behavioural risks that can impact both people and production outcomes. Report + Support™ provides the data and insight needed to move from reactive to proactive and preventative culture management.
Aggregated reporting to identify trends across productions and departments
Real-time dashboards to support leadership oversight and decision-making
Early-warning indicators to emerging behavioural risks
Audit trails to evidence actions taken and support accountability
What our customers say
Hear how teams are creating safer, more open workplaces by giving people the confidence to speak up - and the tools to act when it matters most.
"We were seeing trends that we were able to push up into committee structures and say - 'We know where our problems are. We know what our resourcing needs to look like.'"
"Report + Support™ has been an instrumental tool for us in terms of addressing barriers to reporting unwanted behaviours, as well as monitoring trends and collecting data insights to inform our preventative and response strategies."
"It is highly user‑friendly, intuitive to navigate, and continually evolving - actively streamlining and improving processes in response to community‑driven feedback."
"The thing I value most about the Report + Support system is that it's safe, it's secure, but also provides an avenue for you to seek support. Not only to report, but you can also ask for support through the system."
"It's enabled us to be really data driven. We know that the issues are there, but having that reporting tool where we can actually capture how many reports are coming in, the data on the different types of issues that are being experienced, we can obviously then amend and create our services with that in mind."
Key challenges in managing misconduct in the creative industries
Creative industries face distinct cultural and structural challenges that can make workplace behaviour difficult to monitor and address. Report + Support™ provides the structure, visibility, and evidence needed to manage these risks effectively.
Power dynamics
Hierarchical structures, combined with the influence of high-profile talent, senior creatives, or powerful production figures, can create environments where individuals feel unable to report concerns due to fear of career consequences or reputational damage. This dynamic can suppress disclosure and allow inappropriate behaviour to persist unchecked. Report + Support™ provides confidential and anonymous reporting routes that help reduce these barriers, enabling earlier disclosure and supporting organisations in meeting CIISA Standards and their duty under the Employment Rights Act to take all reasonable steps to prevent workplace harassment and sexual misconduct.
Underreporting
The creative industries rely heavily on freelancers, contractors, and short-term production staff who may be reluctant to report concerns due to job insecurity, reliance on references, and future career opportunities. This can result in significant blind spots in organisational oversight. Accessible and trusted reporting systems help ensure that concerns are captured consistently across all workforce types, strengthening visibility and supporting compliance with industry expectations around safe working environments.
Regulatory compliance
Organisations are increasingly required to demonstrate not only that policies exist, but that meaningful preventative steps have been taken to reduce the risk of harassment and sexual misconduct, in line with the Employment Rights Act duty to take "all reasonable steps" and the CIISA Standards for safe working practices. This includes training, reporting mechanisms, investigation processes, and documented responses. Report + Support™ provides structured reporting workflows and audit trails that evidence how concerns are handled from report to resolution, supporting defensible compliance in both regulatory and reputational contexts.
Project-based work
Short-term and temp teams, rotating crews, and multi-site productions make it difficult to maintain continuity of oversight, meaning behavioural risks can move between productions without detection. This fragmentation increases the risk of repeat behaviour going unnoticed. Centralised reporting ensures continuity of insight across productions, enabling organisations to track patterns over time and identify repeat individuals, teams, or environments of concern.
Reputational risk
Workplace culture issues in TV, arts, and media can escalate rapidly due to intense media scrutiny, public-facing talent, and the speed at which allegations spread across industry networks and news cycles. In some cases, reputational concerns or commissioning pressure can delay escalation or discourage reporting altogether. Early reporting and centralised oversight help organisations respond before issues become public, reducing exposure while demonstrating proactive compliance with CIISA Standards and legal duties to prevent workplace harm.
Creative Industries resources
Practical guidance, templates, and support materials designed to help you improve reporting culture, strengthen processes, and meet evolving compliance expectations. Explore the full library here.
Sexual Harassment & Speak-Up Compliance Toolkit
The Employment Rights Act raises the bar from "reasonable steps" to "all reasonable steps" to prevent sexual harassment, extending liability to third-party conduct and strengthening whistleblowing protections. This toolkit helps you identify organisational exposure, take required action, and evidence compliance in practice.
All Reasonable Steps: A Guide to the Employment Rights Act
The Employment Rights Act is one of the most significant UK workplace rights overhauls in over a decade, strengthening employer duties on harassment prevention, whistleblowing protection, and workplace accountability. This guide explains what the changes mean in practice and how organisations should prepare.
Training Academy
Our Training Academy delivers practical, evidence-based training tailored to the creative industry, helping staff and leaders recognise, prevent, and respond to workplace misconduct. Strengthen culture, improve reporting confidence, and build safer, more accountable creative workplaces.
FAQs
Questions? We've got answers.
Creative organisations can meet CIISA Standards by implementing clear reporting systems, consistent case management, and proactive steps to prevent and address bullying, harassment, and misuse of power across creative projects and workplaces. These standards require organisations to go beyond policy and demonstrate how concerns are captured, escalated, and acted on in practice across stages, productions, studios, venues, and project-based environments. Centralised reporting systems support compliance by providing a wider visibility of issues across the organisation and evidence of action taken to maintain safer, more accountable creative workplaces.
Creative organisations demonstrate compliance with the Employment Rights Act duty to take "all reasonable steps" by showing they have effective reporting channels, training, investigation processes, and documented responses to workplace concerns. In practice, this means being able to evidence preventative action across a range of environments, from studios and rehearsal spaces to offices and live events. Structured reporting systems provide the audit trail needed to demonstrate consistent handling, escalation, and resolution of concerns.
In creative industries, influential individuals, high-profile talent, perceived genius, and senior creatives can unintentionally suppress misconduct reporting, as people may fear reputational damage, career consequences, or loss of future opportunities. This can lead to underreporting or delayed escalation of concerns across projects and workplaces. Confidential and anonymous reporting channels help reduce this pressure, enabling issues to be raised safely regardless of role, seniority, or contractual status.
Creative organisations manage reputational risk by identifying and addressing workplace concerns early, before they escalate into public allegations, industry scrutiny, or commissioning risk. Because creative work is often public-facing and reputation-sensitive, issues can quickly become visible across audiences, press, and partners. Centralised and trusted reporting systems help organisations detect concerns earlier, respond consistently, and demonstrate alignment with CIISA Standards and legal duties around preventing workplace harm.
Creative workplaces prevent normalisation of harmful behaviour by ensuring all levels of concerns are consistently reported, recorded, and reviewed across all projects, teams, and environments. Without shared visibility, repeat behaviours can move between productions, venues, or organisations unnoticed. Centralised reporting helps identify patterns early and ensures behavioural standards are applied consistently across the entire creative workforce.
Commissioners, funders, and industry bodies ensure accountability by requiring the organisations they support to have structured reporting systems that capture, escalate, and resolve workplace concerns consistently. This creates an oversight across multiple creative projects and ensures that misconduct, harassment, or unsafe behaviour is not handled differently depending on where or how work is delivered. It also strengthens governance expectations across the wider creative ecosystem.
Creative organisations ensure fair handling by applying their consistent reporting and case management processes across all concerns, regardless of seniority, reputation, or role involved. This reduces the risk of bias in cases involving senior creatives, well-known talent, or influential decision-makers. It also strengthens trust in reporting systems by demonstrating that all concerns are treated seriously, investigated appropriately, and documented transparently across the organisation.
Still have questions?
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