Teaching Period 1: Report + Support Data
Introduction
- This data was obtained from reports submitted to Aston's Report + Support (R+S) platform 1st September 2023 - 31st December 2023.
- Students, staff, and visitors can submit reports to the R+S platform Report + Support - Aston University, which are then triaged and responded to by an allocated responding staff member.
- R+S is one method concerns about bullying, harassment, sexual violence, sexual assault, hate crime, discrimination, assault, and other issues of concern are identified.
- Alternate methods include, but are not limited to, informing Campus Safety, reporting to Unite staff, reporting to the ARC at the SU, reporting to a member of staff, staff emailing the Students of Concern group, staff submitting a Safeguarding Referral, reporting externally (to the police, for example). Concerns that are received from any of these methods are not currently captured by the R+S data.
| A student | A visitor | Prefer not to say | Staff | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A hate crime | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| An assault | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Bullying | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| Discrimination | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Harassment | 10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 |
| I'm not sure | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Other | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 |
| Sexual misconduct | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Total number of reports (October-December 2023 compared to 2022.
Action plan
We have recently become Gold Members with Culture Shift, the organisation that provides the R+S platform. R+S has the capacity to serve as the primary source of data for concerning incidents, coordinating responses, tracking progress on cases, and measuring outcomes. We are looking into how to best utilise this capacity by directing all reports into the R+S platform.