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Dear University of South Wales,

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please can I make the following request for information, relating to Sexual Violence Policies at your institution. For clarification, Sexual Violence Policies or procedures relate to any official document, policy, procedure or guidance (or otherwise named) relating to students disclosing sexual harassment, assault or violence (or otherwise named).
1. Do you have a Sexual Violence policy or procedure?
2. If not, does sexual harassment or violence fall under any other student related policies (i.e Dignity and Respect, Bullying and Harassment, or Equality and Diversity policies)?
3. If any policy or procedure exists relating to sexual violence or harassment, please can you provide me with a copy of the document, or a link to your website where I can access it myself.
4. When considering disclosures of sexual violence or assault, do you follow a separate formal procedure, other than under your standard Discipline Regulations/processes? If so, please could you outline the procedure.
5. Do you have an informal resolution process prior to any formal investigation processes relating to sexual violence or assault. This could include mediation, no-contact agreements, or any other process which does not result in or result from a formal investigation into the disclosure.
6. If you responded ‘yes’ to question 5, please can you outline any informal procedures you engage with, and send any documents relating to this process.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries about the questions asked, or to provide any clarification, or require me to shorten my request due to cost limits.

Yours faithfully,

C Short

Freedom of Information, University of South Wales

Dear Mr Short

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

We acknowledge your request for information.

We are considering your request and you should receive the information requested within the statutory timescale of 20 working days. If there are any areas of your request that need to be clarified then we will contact you at the earliest opportunity.

Yours sincerely,

Rhys Davies
Information Compliance Manager /Rheolwr Cydymffurfio i Wybodaeth
University Secretary's Office/Swyddfa Ysgrifennydd y Brifysgol
University of South Wales/Prifysgol De Cymru
Treforest
Pontypridd
CF37 1DL

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Rhys Davies, University of South Wales

Dear C Short,

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

 

Thank you for your request for information received on the 29^th November
2018.  Please find below the University’s response.

 

1.    Do you have a Sexual Violence policy or procedure?

 

We do not currently have a specific sexual violence policy, but we are in
the process of reviewing our disciplinary regulations and as part of this
review will be considering the introduction of a procedure on violence,
harassment and hate crime.

 

2.    If not, does sexual harassment or violence fall under any other
student related policies (i.e Dignity and Respect, Bullying and
Harassment, or Equality and Diversity policies)?

 

·         Dignity at Study

 

·         Equality  and Diversity Policy Statement  

 

·         Student Code of Conduct and Student Conduct Regulations

 

3.    If any policy or procedure exists relating to sexual violence or
harassment, please can you provide me with a copy of the document, or a
link to your website where I can access it myself. 

 

N/A

 

4.    When considering disclosures of sexual violence or assault, do you
follow a separate formal procedure, other than under your standard
Discipline Regulations/processes? If so, please could you outline the
procedure.

 

Not currently.

 

5.    Do you have an informal resolution process prior to any formal
investigation processes relating to sexual violence or assault. This could
include mediation, no-contact agreements, or any other process which does
not result in or result from a formal investigation into the disclosure.

 

Not currently.

 

6.    If you responded ‘yes’ to question 5, please can you outline any
informal procedures you engage with, and send any documents relating to
this process.  

 

N/A

 

Should you have any further queries do not hesitate to contact the
Information Compliance Manager, University of South Wales, Pontypridd,
CF37 1DL. If you are not satisfied with the University’s response, you are
entitled to use the University’s complaints procedure available from
[1]http://uso.southwales.ac.uk/ig/foi/.

Further information about the Act is available from :

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF

[2]http://www.ico.gov.uk/

Yours faithfully,

Rhys Davies

Information Compliance Manager

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

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1. http://uso.southwales.ac.uk/ig/foi/
2. http://www.ico.gov.uk/

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