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Content Warning: This webpage contains information about gender‑based violence, which may be distressing. Please engage in a way that feels safe for you, and seek support if needed. 

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Your safety and well-being is of the utmost importance to us. We want our community to be one where our students and staff feel safe, respected. Reporting your experience can help us support you and take preventative action to make our community safer. 

Report to SafeUC

Reporting means securely sharing details of an incident so that you can access support or request action from the University. You can choose whether or not to progress the report for formal actions. SafeUC is the University’s reporting platform, helping us build a safer and more supportive community.

Incidents reported into SafeUC include Gender-based Violence, as well as situations that impact psychological safety, dignity, or wellbeing.  

Health and safety report

Report your health or safety concerns on campus. Examples include personal injury in class or at a placement site, hazards, spills, broken equipment, unsafe behaviour, injuries, or near misses. Your report helps the university respond quickly and maintain a safe environment for everyone.

Report grievance

If you’re a student with a complaint about academic or administrative actions or decisions made by the University or a staff member, we have grievance processes to guide you. Support, advocacy and information services are also  available to help you with these processes.

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Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

 
  1. Quick Support: Your report will be reviewed within 24 hours on a business day, so you can get help promptly, if you would like support.
  2.  Improving Safety: Reporting helps the University understand what happened, identify patterns, and make changes to reduce the chance of similar incidents occurring in the future. 
  3.  Accountability: The University uses your information, whether anonymous or identified, to stay accountable by sharing de-identified data about incidents and responses with the Department of Education.
  4. Formal Reporting: You can also use this system to make a Formal Report. A formal report will be investigated by the University and may lead to disciplinary action for the person who has caused harm. You can choose whether you want an incident investigated regardless of the type of report submitted. 
 
  • You can report if something happened to you
  • You can reportif you saw something happen to someone else (you are a witness)
  • You can report if someone told you something (reporting on behalf or someone)
  • You can reportif your actions impacted negatively on another person
  • Someone else can also report on your behalf, including a friend, family member or UC staff member

This tool is designed for reporting interpersonal incidents. An interpersonal incident refers to any situation involving direct contact between two or more individuals that may have resulted in harm, distress, or concern. 

This includes:

  • An incident that impacted you directly
  • An incident that you heard about involving staff, student, or UC community members
  • An incident/s that you witnessed on or around campus, online, at a UC event
  • Any incident that has happened recently, or in the past

As well as;

Something that you saw, heard or experienced that didn’t seem right.

Other incidents and concerns can also be reported. 

What happens after you make a report depends on what options you choose while making a report. The  three main options are:

  • Report anonymously- you choose if you want be contacted. We may reach out via a secure anonymous chat to offer you support.
  • Report with the intention of making a Formal Report- in which case the University will investigate your case. You can choose to do this with or without support.
  • Report to seek support. You can make a decision about formalising the report at a later date.

If you request support, a Case Manager from the University will contact you as soon as possible. 

They can provide confidential support to you, and connect you with additional support if you choose, including medical help, specialist counselling and police if you want to report to police.

Students and staff may also be eligible to access equity or workplace adjustments, so that studies and work are not disadvantaged by what you have experienced. 

EQUITY ADJUSTMENT PLAN GUIDELINES

Gender Based Violence refers to violence that is used against someone because of their gender. It describes violence rooted in gender-based power inequalities, rigid gender norms and gender-based discrimination. Violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, psychological, social, cultural, spiritual, financial and technology-facilitated abuse (including image-based abuse), and stalking. Whilst most Gender-based Violence is targeted towards women, we use the term gender-based violence to include violence perpetrated against LGBTIQA+ people and men. We recognise there are shared drivers of gender-based violence and violence against LGBTIQA+ people, but that violence against the latter is also driven by rigid and hierarchical ideas about sex, gender and sexuality.

Yes, you can report on behalf of someone who has made a disclosure to you.

 You can also make a report about something you have seen. 

You don’t need to know the name of anyone in the incident, you can report without using names.

If someone asks you not to share their name, you can also report on someone else’s behalf with or without using their name – ask them what they prefer..

You can report what happened simply to let us know, so we can take steps to prevent the incident recurring in the future and provide you with support. This type of report is a Disclosure or Report.

If you want the University to investigate, tick the box that says “This is a Formal Report.” You can choose to do this with or without support. Before starting an investigation, we will always speak with you first. You can withdraw your consent and stop the process at any time.

Anonymous means that a person’s identity is not revealed or known. 

You can report anonymously, which means you are reporting without using your name or any other identifying information. The university won’t know who you are, but we will know what happened to you. This means we can notice patterns, make changes, and reduce the chance of similar incidents occurring in the future.

You can also report on someone else’s behalf, keeping their identification anonlymous. This means that we have data about what happened to them but don’t know who that person is.

Q.What happens if you report anonymously?

A.If you report anonymously we may follow up via a secure and anonymous chatline - we would like to offer support and be assured you are ok. You decide if you want contact with the University.

We may not be able to investigate the matter if the reporter remains anonymous – this is your decision. If what happened is part of a pattern that has been picked up in other reports, we can conduct an environmental assessment if we have enough detail and even if you choose to remain anonymous.

We use this information in different ways.

If you want support- we pass the information on to a Case Manager from UC,who will contact you and offer to assist with information, options and support.

If you want to make a formal report- we use this information as the basis of our investigation which may lead to the respondent (the person who did the harm) being asked to attend a misconduct Inquiry.

Even if you don’t want support or an investigation, we will use the reported information (de-identified, that is, without your name attached), to report what has happened at the R.N.A Steering Committee and in our reporting to the Department of Education.

Support when you need it

Support is available if you have experienced, witnessed, or are supporting someone affected by sexual or gender-based violence.

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