What to expect when you report to UTS

Students and staff can report an incident of sexual harm at any time. UTS will support and guide you through the reporting process.

What you can expect

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

  • 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 the this time. UTS treats all reports of sexual harm 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.
  • 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 and investigate as outlined in the Sexual Harm Prevention and Response Policy.

If you choose not to make a report, and then change your mind, you can make a report at any time. Contact the UTS sexual harm support line on 1800 531 626 and/or lodge an online report.

If you don't wish to make a report, you can still access help and support.

Support for sexual harm

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.