What to expect when you report to UTS

What students can expect when reporting to a safety caseworker

Safety caseworkers aim to provide a safe, supportive and confidential environment for students affected by sexual harm and GBV, empowering them to navigate their options and access necessary resources.

Safety caseworkers will assist you in:

• understanding your rights
• exploring available support services
• navigating any investigation and/or resolution process, and
• providing support for your needs and concerns about sexual harm or GBV.

Reports are treated on a case-by-case basis, but you can expect the following:

• You will be assigned a safety caseworker to coordinate your case. We will also provide you with safety planning services to help ensure your wellbeing.
• You will be offered support and regular face-to-face or online meetings for checks-ins and updates on your case.
• We will collect information from you about what happened. We will support you and your wishes as fully as possible during this time. UTS treats all reports of sexual harm and GBV confidentially. Information will be handled in line with the Sexual harm reporting privacy notice.
• You will be offered the option to make a police report and, where relevant, guidance from the UTS Student Legal Service. If you don't want to report the incident to the police, you will be offered the option to make a report to UTS.
• You will be offered referrals to various services, including counselling, health services and financial assistance. Regardless of whether you access these services, your case will still be actively followed up by the safety caseworkers.
• If you make an internal report, UTS will manage and investigate in line with the Sexual Harm Prevention and Response Policy.

If you choose not to make a report, you can still:

• access help and support
• change your mind, you can make a report at any time.

What staff can expect when reporting to the People Unit

Reports are treated on a case-by-case basis, but you can expect the following: 

• You will be offered support. This help is offered at any time and at a place that you're most comfortable with, which might be at UTS or somewhere outside of UTS.
• We will collect information from you about what happened. We will support you and your wishes as fully as possible during this time. UTS treats all reports of sexual harm and GBV confidentially. Information will be handled in line with the Sexual harm reporting privacy notice.
• You will be offered the option to make a police report. If you report the incident to the police, UTS is required to help with the police investigation. This might mean that UTS needs to pass on information. If the police allow it, UTS can also act on the same report internally.
• In some cases, UTS may be obliged to make a report to the police (as outlined in the Sexual Harm Prevention and Response Policy).
• If you don't want to report the incident to the police, you will be offered the option to make an internal report.
  If you make an internal report, UTS will manage this in line with the Sexual Harm Prevention and Response Policy.