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Speak Out

The Speak Out Reporting Tool is available to all students and staff members of Dundalk Institute of Technology and it's 100% anonymous. Please report one incident, or series of related incidents at a time; this is to ensure that we can understand the nature of your experience

Speak Out Reporting Tool

As a member of the DKIT community, students and staff have the right to study or work in an environment which is free from bullying, harassment, and sexual misconduct.

Speak Out provides the opportunity for you to make the college aware of incidents that you have either experienced or witnessed by reporting them anonymously.

Visit the Speak Out Reporting Tool

What can I use it for?

Speak Out is an online anonymous reporting tool available to students and staff to disclose incidents of bullying, cyberbullying, harassment, discrimination, hate crime, coercive behaviour/control, stalking, assault, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape.

Please report one incident, or series of related incidents at a time; this is to ensure that we can understand the nature of your experience.

What information does it collect?

The Speak Out Reporting Tool collects information about incidents of bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct and the Institute will use this information to inform the development and delivery of activities aimed at raising awareness about these issues within the college and help support eliminating bullying, harassment, and sexual misconduct.

Support Services

Please find below a list of relevant DkIT supports and services. For a full list of external supports please visit dkit.speakout.ie/all-supports

It's 100% Anonymous

It is important to remember that as the Speak Out reporting tool is completely anonymous, there is no way of identifying or contacting any member of the university community who uses the tool.

People using the Speakout reporting tool may also experience a therapeutic benefit in reporting what happened to them through this anonymous channel.

This Initiative is part of The Consent Framework was published in 2018 by the Department of Higher Education, it highlights the need for colleges to take on responsibility for creating safe college communities for all staff, students, and visitors.