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Find out what Students' Union policies have been passed by students, and more importantly, what is being done about them.

Here you can find a list of all the policies which have been passed by student council. We're working on a live tracker so you can check the progress of each policy, but until we've got that up and running please contact your student president team to ask for an update on policies. You can also check out current ideas and rejected ideas.

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    Policy Lapse - Zero Tolerance Policy (Emergencey motion) - Oct 17

    Submitted 3 years ago by David Devlin
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      1. SAUWS to adopt a zero tolerance approach to all violence against women. 2. SAUWS to train all SAUWS staff about sexual harassment and train them to deal with reports of sexual harassment more effectively and sensitively. 3. For SAUWS to update SAUWS disciplinary procedures to include sexual harassment if they do not already include them. 4. For SAUWS to work closely with the Standing Safe Campaign to educate its members about sexual harassment and the zero tolerance and safe space policy. 5. Mandate SAUWS to ensure the implementation of the zero tolerance policy and safe space policy during all SAUWS events. 6. For SAUWS to create an anonymous online method of reporting sexual harassment on the SAUWS website.

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      This policy was originally passed in October 2017

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