Harassment and sexual misconduct - guide for students

This consultation is currently paused – new deadline to be confirmed.

We want universities and colleges to be more effective in preventing and responding to harassment and sexual misconduct affecting students.

We also want students to know how they can report incidents at their university or college, and to feel confident that when they do their complaints will be addressed.

Read our proposals and give feedback

Setting expectations

We are doing this by setting out expectations for universities and colleges to follow.

We do not have legal powers to investigate complaints from individual students.

But we do want universities and colleges to be more effective in handling sexual misconduct and harassment and we would like to hear the views of students.

Our proposals set out expectations for universities and colleges to follow. We suggest that we will take action where there are significant failures in their reporting systems and responses.

Published 09 January 2020
Last updated 16 March 2020 + show all updates

16 March 2020: Deadline extended to 5 June 2020
07 February 2020: A new explanatory film was added to the page.

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