Since 1 August 2025, every university and college registered with the Office for Students in England has had to keep a “single comprehensive source of information” on harassment and sexual misconduct. A campus app can put that source one tap from a student’s home screen. It cannot be the source itself, because the OfS wants it on a public website that needs no password.

What condition E6 requires

Condition E6 applies to all registered providers in England. Its core, E6.2, reads: “The provider must maintain a single comprehensive source of information which sets out policies and procedures on subject matter relating to incidents of harassment and sexual misconduct, including intimate personal relationships between relevant staff members and students.”

The source can be “a single document or webpage”, or a summary page that links to other documents (E6.11(g)). It must meet minimum content requirements, keep earlier versions of its policies available for an appropriate period, and follow what the OfS calls the prominence principles (E6.3).

What it must contain

E6.11(n) lists eight things the source must set out in “comprehensive and easy to understand” terms:

  1. the steps the provider takes that could make “a significant and credible difference in protecting students”;
  2. how students, staff and others can report an incident;
  3. how information will be “handled sensitively and used fairly”;
  4. how students are informed so that they understand it;
  5. the support available;
  6. staff training;
  7. how investigations are kept “credible, fair”;
  8. how the people involved are told about decisions and the reasons for them.

How it has to reach students

The prominence principles in E6.11(o) set out where the source goes and how people hear about it:

  • it is published “in a prominent position” on the provider’s website, where students and applicants can reach it “without the need for any form of password or security check”;
  • a statement about it is “communicated directly to all students and staff in writing at least once each calendar year”;
  • the statement also appears in the prospectus and in student and staff handbooks.

Separately, E6.11(c)(i) expects students to understand the source’s content when they register at the start of each year of study, and paragraph 18 of the guidance suggests that a downloadable version may help.

Where an app fits

An app can make the source easier to reach. The source itself stays on your public website, where E6.11(o) puts it.

  • Link to the source, not a copy of it. A link from the home screen to the public page keeps one version, which is the point of a single source.
  • Put the reporting routes one tap away. Students looking for help at a bad moment should not have to search a website.
  • Use notices for the yearly reminder, but not only notices. A notice in the app can carry the annual statement, and read rates will show how far it reached. Not every student or member of staff will have the app, so the written statement still needs a channel that reaches everyone.
  • Do not take reports in a side channel. An app, or an assistant inside it, should send students to your official reporting route rather than collect reports itself, so that every report reaches the process E6 describes.

Outside England

E6 is an English condition. In Wales, Medr’s staff and learner welfare condition asks registered providers to have “effective arrangements to support and promote learner and staff welfare”, including freedom from harassment and sexual violence, and to take account of its supplementary detail by 1 August 2026. In Scotland, section 9 of the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Act 2026 gives ministers a power to set a condition on preventing gender-based violence, but on 11 November 2026 it was marked as not yet in force. We found no binding equivalent in Northern Ireland.

How Varsio handles it

A Varsio pilot launches with your support services and reporting routes one tap from the home screen, notices sent to the students you choose with a read rate for each, and an assistant set up to direct students to your official reporting route rather than take a report itself. How the assistant works explains what it leaves to your team.