If you think you or someone you know has experienced a hate crime, there is a variety of support options available to you.
For the Turing community
- Academic Services Team This Turing service offers support and advice to Enrichment and Doctoral students and Turing Research Fellows, with signposting and referral to more specialist services. If you're not sure where to go, this is a good place to start.
- HR team If you are a member of staff or manager your HR partner will be able to identify the support that’s available for you.
- Academic Engagement team An advisor can talk a Turing Fellow, TUL, ULM, or someone on a visiting access contract through the Turing's procedures and what support is available to them.
- External Supervision The Turing's external supervisor who can offer advice on how to deal with situations both in and out the work environment.
- Employee Assistance Programme This online resource is available free of charge, offering immediate information, answers and advice to a range of workplace and personal issues to staff and students.
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Team The team provides advice, support and guidance on equality, diversity and inclusion related issues to staff and students.
Other sources of support
- Citizens Advice provides some useful information on the different types of harassment and hate crime people may experience including disability hate crime, racist and religious hate crime, sexual harassment, and sexual orientation and transgender identity hate crime.
- True Vision offers guidance on reporting hate crime and hate incidents. If you do not wish to talk to anyone in person about the incident or wish to remain anonymous, there is an online form for reporting hate crime; you can report non-crime hate incidents to the police to try and prevent any escalation in seriousness.
- LGBT Foundation has a number of groups covering a wide section of the LGBT community. They provide a safe and comfortable environment for people who may feel isolated, are coming out, or are new to the area.
- Tell MAMA supports victims of anti-Muslim hate and is a public service which also measures and monitors anti-Muslim incidents.
- Community Security Trust (CS)helps those who are victims of anti-Semitic hatred, harassment or bias.
- Victim Support When you report a crime to the police, they should automatically ask you if you would like help from an organisation like Victim Support. But anyone affected by crime can contact them directly – you don’t need to talk to the police to get Victim Support help.