For universities
A practical partner for your E6 work.
Your training teaches the principles. WeOK helps students put them into practice before and during a meeting with someone, and sends them straight to your support when they need it. It is free for students and holds no student data.
Condition E6
How WeOK supports what E6 asks of you.
WeOK builds on your E6 work; it does not replace it, and using WeOK does not make a university compliant. Compliance stays with you, and this table shows where WeOK helps.
The app's main flow comes first, so students are never slowed down. The extras are optional and offered after use, on a single page that appears when a student taps "I'm home safe".
| What E6 asks of a university | How WeOK helps | What stays with you |
|---|---|---|
| Keep a single comprehensive source of information on harassment and sexual misconduct, published prominently.Condition E6 | Get help, on the app's Stop at any time screen, links students straight to it, alongside your support and reporting contacts, which we confirm with you every term. After use, students can save your contacts to their phone in one tap. | Writing, publishing and maintaining it. |
| Make sure "students understand the content of the single comprehensive source of information" "when they register at the start of each year of study".Condition E6 | For the first three days of each term, one card on the app's home screen shows your updated contacts and a link to your policy page. It never pops up or blocks the app. | Registration and induction. |
| Make sure "induction sessions for new students contain training to ensure they understand behaviour" that may constitute harassment and sexual misconduct.Condition E6 | Optional, offered after use: a 60-second refresher on consent, withdrawal, alcohol and harassment, written from your own training and signed off by you. | Designing and delivering the training. |
| Bystander training and "training on sexual consent".OfS guidance on E6, paragraph 26 | Optional, offered after use: friends can be each other's trusted contact, with short steps for stepping in safely, taken from your bystander training. Consent principles are built into every agreement: either person can withdraw at any time, and an earlier yes never counts as a yes now. | Your training programme. |
| "Training is underpinned by credible evidence, and its effectiveness is evaluated."OfS guidance on E6, paragraph 26 | Every pilot includes an independent evaluation designed and run by an academic partner, with an optional 2-minute anonymous survey offered after use. We never see individual answers. | Your own evaluation and reporting. |
| Clear ways for students to report. | WeOK never takes reports. Get help sends students to your reporting routes and to national services. | Receiving and handling every report. |
| Sensitive handling of information. | WeOK holds no records of any agreement, so it adds no student data for you to manage. | Your case handling. |
Misuse and safeguarding
Designed to be hard to turn against anyone.
The first question a safeguarding team should ask of any consent tool is how it could be misused. These are the design choices we have made, and we are seeking an independent review of misuse risks before any pilot.
Not proof of consent
The app says so clearly. Consent can be withdrawn at any moment, and an earlier yes never counts as a yes now.
Nothing for us to hand over
We hold no records of any agreement. Each person's record stays on their own phone.
No pressure built in
Answers are private. A mismatch is never shown as a rejection, and there are no scores, ratings or reviews of other people.
Withdraw at any time
With one tap, or simply by saying so. A withdrawal updates both phones instantly.
The user stays in control
Each person chooses their own trusted contact, and live location is shared only with that contact. Confirming needs the account holder's own Face ID or fingerprint.
Reporting always comes first
We will work with your team so students know a WeOK record never stops them reporting, and never decides whether a report is taken seriously.
Data protection
Data protection impact assessment, in brief.
We will complete a full data protection impact assessment before any pilot and share it with each partner university. This is a summary of the design it will assess.
At a university's request, WeOK can be adapted to provide anonymous, aggregated information to support its prevention work and training. It would never include anything about what any student agreed.
| Information | Why | Where it is kept |
|---|---|---|
| An account | To run the app | WeOK's servers |
| The result of the age check ("verified: yes") | To keep WeOK 18+ | WeOK's servers. The ID document and selfie are checked by a specialist provider and never stored by us. |
| Student status ("current student: yes") | To keep WeOK for students at partner universities | WeOK's servers. Confirmed once through the university's own login and re-checked once a year. WeOK never sees the password. |
| Face ID or fingerprint | To open the app and confirm agreements, so only the real account holder can | Never leaves the phone. The phone handles it; WeOK never sees or stores it. |
| Boundaries, confirmations and withdrawals | The person's own record | On each person's phone only, with an optional backup to their own cloud account |
| Trusted contact and live location | Check-ins on the day | Shared only with the contact the user chooses, and only while it is turned on |
| Evaluation survey answers | The independent evaluation | Optional and anonymous, held by the independent evaluator, never by WeOK |
| Student records from the university | Not needed | We do not ask for them |
WeOK is developed by Falkenmark Services Group Ltd, registered with the Information Commission's Office (ZC296686). WeOK is not a contract and not proof of consent, and it never replaces support, reporting or the law.
Pilot WeOK with us.
We are looking for a small number of UK universities to shape WeOK before launch. Email us to arrange a conversation.