Freedom To Speak Up

Freedom To Speak Up

Staff and students can raise concerns via the Freedom to Speak Up Platform on the intranet about:

Safeguarding:

This may include, but is not limited to:

  • Protection of a vulnerable child
  • Protection of a vulnerable adult (including vulnerable bene​ficiaries, staff and students)
  • Sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (SEAH) of vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Modern slavery​

Staff conduct, behaviour and wellbeing:

This may include, but is not limited to:

  • Bullying & Harassment
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Racial harassment/racism
  • Discrimination
  • Diversity and Equality of Opportunity
  • The Prevent Agenda (concerns related to terrorism and extremism in staff)
  • Hate Crime against staff

Student conduct, behaviour and wellbeing

This may include, but is not limited to:​

  • Student health and wellbeing​
  • Bullying & harassment
  • Sexual harassment
  • Racial harassment/racism
  • Discrimination
  • The Prevent agenda – (concerns related to terrorism and extremism in students)​
  • Hate crime against students

Data Protection Concerns

This may include, but is not limited to:

  • Potential breach​es e.g. loss of hardware, data sent to wrong person
  • ​Ideas for how data protection could be improved e.g. procedural changes, training needs
  • Poor practices that endanger rights to privacy and data protection, e.g. ease of access, excessive data capture

Research Integrity

This may include, but is not limited to:

  • Laboratory research
  • Research involving human subjects (inc. clinical and social science research)
  • Secondary/Desk research, e.g. systematic reviews
  • Matters relating to publication​
  • Evaluation of a researcher or research outputs contravening the DOR​A Principles

​In order to investigate matters thoroughly and be able to feedback, staff and students are encouraged to identify themselves when raising concerns or reporting safeguarding incidents, however you can report anonymously.​