What is Report + Support?
Report + Support is an online tool developed by Culture Shift where staff and students can report issues of sexual harassment and misconduct, or any other form of harassment, anonymously or by contacting an advisor to discuss. Report + Support is also home to information about internal and external support, policies and procedures.
Who can make a report?
RCL students and staff can make a report through Report + Support. Visitors are encouraged to report complaints through the public complaints process.
What happens when someone makes an anonymous report?
The report will be viewed by a Student Casework Officer. The Officer will first review the report to identify any risks that relate to duty of care. If no immediate risk is identified, no further, direct action will be taken. If any identifiable information is provided, the Officer will then remove the identifiable information. The information kept will be for trend analysis and inform proactive prevention.
What is the difference between anonymous and advisor reports?
RCL does not know who has made an anonymous report, and therefore cannot reach out and provide support. If someone wants to receive support or consider informal or formal options to address a concern, they would make a named report and speak to an advisor.
What happens when someone wants to contact an advisor?
An advisor may be one of three roles, which may include a Student Casework Officer or a Wellbeing Advisor for students, or an HR Advisor for staff.
The administrators (see below), assign a case to the requested advisor. Each of the advisors is provided with a login and can only access cases that are assigned to them.
The advisor receives an email notification that a case has been assigned to them – no identifiable information is provided within this email alert. The advisor then logs into Report + Support to access information provided using their personal login details. The advisor then makes contact with the person who has made the report and they arrange a meeting to discuss the report.
What action can you take from anonymous reports?
Information provided within anonymous reports will be used as statistical data to understand what is happening and to inform proactive prevention work. The (roles or teams) will work with the areas identified to address any concerning trends.
How will RCL manage malicious complaints?
If a report is found to be malicious or vexatious, such reports will be addressed under existing student and staff procedures.
What do you do with the information gathered from anonymous reports?
Monitoring and trend data (anonymised) will be reported on annually and used for improving RCL’s prevention and response to sexual violence, harassment and hate crime.
What do you do with the data gathered from advisor reports?
The data collected from Report + Support is used to produce anonymised annual reports. These reports would include the number of cases, the most reported types of harassment and location.
How secure is the data and information sent through the system?
Data held on Report + Support is GDPR compliant and further information about how data is collected and stored is outlined in the Privacy Notice. The system has been security tested by both the developer, Culture Shift, and by RCL.
How long is data sorted on the system?
We will only retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it. We will keep records of reports for one year from case closure on the Report + Support system as outlined in the Privacy Notice. All personal data will be kept according to the Records Retention Schedule.
Who are the administrators on the system?
- Director of Quality and Governance
- Deputy Director of People
- Head of Student Experience