Reporting a race hate incident

If you are a victim of or witness to a racist incident it's important that you report it to someone. If the incident is particularly serious please report it to the police immediately on 0845 113 5000 or in an emergency dial 999.

If you do not wish to contact the police in the first instance, you can contact your nearest racist incident  reporting centre which will treat your incident in strict confidence (unless child protection issues are raised) with assurance that information provided will not be passed on to any organisation without consent of the complainant. Key staff at these centres have been trained by WRHP to deal with complaints and to signpost you to services you can access for support and additional advice.

You can report a racist incident online to the Police at: www.report-it.org.uk. 

If you report it to a reporting centre your information will be treated in confidence and will be used to provide a co-ordinated response/account to racial harassment/incidents in Wolverhampton.

Wolverhampton Homes 

If you are a tenant of Wolverhampton Homes and is experiencing racism, you can report it to the Equalities and Division Team (on 01902) 554765/551046),who will take action against perpetrators who breach their tenancy agreements under the powers of the Housing Act 1996.

Wolverhampton Homes does not tolerate any forms of harassment by its tenant, and have a policy to deal with this.

Local authority schools

Local education authorities have their own policy and use a different form to record and tackle all cases of racial harassment in schools. For additional support and advice please contact 01902 555230/555238

Council employees

An employee who encounters racism at work can report it to their Service Group Human Resource Manager and or your trade union. Further guidance is available in the "Discipline, capability and grievance procedures", which has a "Discrimination, harassment, bullying complaint form". 

If an employee is racist towards its customer or a member of the general public whilst on duty, then that customer/member of the public can report it to the Equalities and Employment Policy Team on (01902) 554081 or report it on line using the council's complaints and compliments form.