What is Report + Support?
Report + Support is an online tool developed by Culture Shift where staff and students can report issues of gender-based violence, hate crime and harassment anonymously or via contacting an advisor to discuss. Report + Support is also home to information about internal and external support, policies and procedures and our campaigns.
Who can make a report?
City of Glasgow College 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 one of the administrators see below for a list of administrators.
- Kirsty Millar, Student Support and Wellbeing Administrative Officer.
- Aidan Hudner, Student Support and Guidance Manager.
- Lisa Hardy, Student Support and Wellbeing Manager.
The administrators 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 administrator 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?
City of Glasgow College does not know who has made an anonymous report, and therefore cannot reach out and provide support. Whereas 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 a Student Advisor or member of the HR Team.
What happens when someone wants to contact an advisor?
An advisor may be one of a number college staff, which includes Student Advisors or the HR Team for staff reports. The administrators assign a case to an advisor. Each of the advisors are 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. Where areas with any concerning trends are identified, the appropriate department will work with them to address these.
How will City of Glasgow College 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?
City of Glasgow College will analyse trends and this will help us to identify campaigns or areas to work with.
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, 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 City of Glasgow College.
How long is data sorted on the system?
We will only retain personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil purposes we collected it for. We will keep records of reports 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?
- Kirsty Millar, Student Support and Wellbeing Administrative Officer.
- Aidan Hudner, Student Support and Guidance Manager.
- Lisa Hardy, Student Support and Wellbeing Manager.