In person followed up by online consolidation course including sexual consent and bystander training. The course, designed by Epigeum, is delivered by the student support team in person during first year induction. Then within the first year there is a consolidation online course for full time students to complete. This course is divided into three sections:

• Thinking about consent - what consent means in normal, everyday situations before exploring why it is important to have sexual consent. It also empowers students to apply the principle of affirmative consent to both 'real-life' and online situations.
• Communication skills and relationships - consider what you value in your relationships, prompts you to reflect on your personal boundaries, and suggests approaches for communicating effectively with partners. It also looks at both communicating sexual boundaries and more general relationship boundaries.
• Looking out for others - his module empowers you to look out for others and intervene when you see behaviour that makes you uncomfortable, such as verbal, physical or sexual harassment.

This is course designed by Epigeum is delivered by the student support team in person during first year induction. Then within the first year there is a consolidation online course for full time students to complete.Student topics:

• Understanding and tackling harassment, hate, and misconduct
• Being an active bystander
• Looking out for friends and peers
• Building a safe and inclusive community

This training has been designed by the SVLO manager, a qualified Sexual Violence Liaison Officer and Manager and Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) at the Dyson Institute. The aim is to ensure that all students understand the content of the SCSI.

Students will complete training during induction and each year of their course.

All Institute staff will be appropriate trained, this means that they have and will maintain:

• Up-to-date understanding of the content of the single comprehensive source of information on the Dyson Institutes approach to harassment and sexual misconduct and how we fulfill the Office For Students condition of Registration E6 and all the requirements therein.
• Up-to-date understanding of behaviour that may constitute harassment and/or sexual misconduct;
• The required knowledge and skills to support students who:
  - wish to make allegations or complaints about harassment and/or sexual misconduct;
  - have alleged and/or experienced incidents of harassment and/or sexual misconduct; and
  - are the actual or alleged perpetrators of incidents of harassment and/or sexual misconduct.

This is achieved through mandatory staff core and refresher training and regular updates to ensure current understanding as above.

The Aims and objectives:

What is harassment and sexual misconduct? and what is the prevalence in Higher education and our society. 
How to handle disclosures of harassment and sexual misconduct safely and empathetically;
Where to signpost staff and students for support, including specialist support;
The boundaries of supporting people affected by harassment and sexual misconduct;
The need for self-care;
How you can get further involved in supporting work to tackle harassment and victimisation and support those who are affected by it.

Staff who are more likely to recieve disclosures or reports are invited to enhanced training. This develops the core training through a workshop case study approach to response.

The aims and objectives for this training:

• Content Warning and Support available at DIET
• Context (e.g. what is going on in HE institutions)
• Why we do disclosure training? Exploring the fears and apprehensions folk have about receiving disclosures and why someone would be fearful to disclose and additional barriers for specific groups of people when disclosing
• Defining sexual misconduct
• Impacts of sexual misconduct on individuals
• Learning how to provide a trauma-informed response to disclosures (five pillars: safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration, and empowerment)
• Disclosures vs Reports
• Choices at Dyson Institute for report and support
• Things to say/ things not to say
• Empowering statements
• Note taking
• Case practice
• Self-care
• Dyson Technology support and processes

SVLOs complete a comprehensive external training programme to understand:

• the context of sexual violence/ misconduct in Universities/Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
• key elements of the Sexual Offences legislation.
• the prevailing influences which impact on an individual’s decision to disclose/report sexual misconduct/violence.
• a trauma-informed approach when working with victim/survivors of sexual violence.
• the key principles of effective communication within the context of sexual misconduct/ violence.
• an effective, whole organisation risk management framework in responding to sexual violence/ misconduct.
• the principles of confidentiality and information-sharing.
• the importance of managing a first disclosure.
• the key principles of record keeping.
• internal and external referral pathways and safeguarding principles for students.
• the process of reporting sexual misconduct/ violence internally to the University/ HEI or to the police.
• the importance of the boundaries of the SVLO role.

The Institute has a team of qualified and experienced SVLOs who are available to support witnesses, victim/survivors and perpetrators. The team is managed by the Designated Safeguarding Lead who has completed SVLO manager training.

Dyson has trained specialist staff to manage investigations and disciplinaries related to sexual violence.