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28 Feb 2022
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28 Feb 2022
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Last updated on Friday 11 Mar 2022 on 6:32pm
Our universities aim to do their very best to make sure all staff and students can live, work and study in a safe environment. We work with our universities to provide guidance and recommendations to tackle all forms of harassment.
Our guidance and recommendations support universities to create a culture that promotes equality, diversity and inclusion, and where harassment and hate in all its forms, sexual misconduct and abuse will never be tolerated.
Any form of harassment against students or staff represents an abuse of power. It goes against the values and standards of behaviour expected across the university community.
In 2016, we published Changing the culture. The report offers a strategic framework to support universities in addressing and responding to harassment between students.
The report includes five principles to prevent and respond to all forms of harassment which can be customised by each university to use in their own settings. The framework recognises that having policies and processes in place are not enough. They must be underpinned by long term change in institutional culture.
Our new guidance provides recommendations for universities to prevent sexual harassment by staff to students.
It builds on the Changing the culture recommendations, and sets out a series of recommendations to support leaders in preventing and responding to this form of harassment by:
We have produced more guidance on tackling different forms of harassment:
Since publishing Changing the culture, we've tracked the progress universities are making in using the guidance.
There is still more universities and the sector needs to do, but these reports show where progress has been made. We've seen most progress in universities working in partnership with their students and students' unions, other universities, third sector organisations, and local and regional communities.
You can find out more in our two reports: