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Please note that there will be a delay in responding to reports submitted during the winter break from Wednesday 24th December 2025. Reports and messages will be responded to as soon as possible from Friday 2nd January 2026.

Students can find information about alternative support here.

Staff members can access support through the Employee Assistance Programme.

If you have a safeguarding concern during this time, or need help now, please see the 'I need help now' page.

Assault of any kind is not ok. There are different forms of assault, and some may also constitute criminal offences or hate crimes:

Verbal assault

Verbal assault makes it an offence to use threatening, abusive, or insulting language with the intention of causing someone else alarm or distress.

Physical assault

Is any act by which a person intentionally or recklessly causes another to apprehend immediate unlawful violence or suffer. This definition includes battery, which is committed by the intentional or reckless application of unlawful force to another person.

Sexual assault

Sexual assault is a criminal offence. A person commits sexual assault if they intentionally touch another person, the touching is of a sexual nature, and the person does not consent. It involves all unwanted physical contact of a sexual nature and ranges from pinching, embracing, groping, and kissing, to rape (which involves penetration without consent).

There are two ways you can tell us what happened