Girton College Cambridge
Freedom of Information Coordinator
Monday, 17/05/2021
Johanna Langheld
Email
: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx Dear Johanna Langheld,
Re: Serious Incident Statistics
Thank you for your request of 7th April 2021, received by email. With apologies for the delay in replying due
to staff absence.
I understand that you are seeking the following information:
1. [I]nformation pertaining to all serious incident investigations involving the health, wellbeing or
welfare of one or more students - a 'serious incident' being an adverse event, with significant harmful
or potentially harmful consequences, and/or where the effectiveness of the university response is
likely to have a significant impact on the health, wellbeing or welfare of a student, their family and/or
the community.
The need for a serious incident report is specifically recognised in UUK's Suicide-Safer Universities
(2018) guidance.
It would be most useful, if your reply could be comprehensive. The key factor in all cases is that the
University conducted a serious incident investigation. It is not limited to serious incident
investigations following the death of a student, or a student suicide, or conducted after a mental
health incident (such as attempted suicide, near misses, parasuicide, and non-suicidal self-injury),
and whether in University owned property or not. Additionally, if you have records regarding
students who were no longer registered with the University, but where you still carried out such an
investigation, that information would also be of interest.
If you could provide the relevant numbers, subdivided according to any of the above and/or other
categories, that would be extremely helpful.
So, for each of the academic periods 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21:
a) How many serious incident investigations has Girton College conducted?
b) How many serious incident reports were produced?
c) How many serious incidents involved a fatality?
d) How many serious incident reports and/or their findings has Girton College shared with other
institutions?
e) How many serious incident reports and/or their findings have other institutions shared with
you?
I confirm that the College holds some of the information that you have requested, and respond to your
request as follows:
1. The College has one serious incident investigation that is currently in progress. Therefore, it is not
possible at this time, to provide further details until the investigation has been concluded.
Girton College IT Department, Cambridge CB3 0JG
telephone: 01223 338987
email:
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Girton College Cambridge
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I hope this provides you with all the information you need. Please contact me if you need any further
assistance.
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If you are not satisfied with the College’s response you are entitled to make a complaint, and details of our
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at https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/freedom-of-information/. Yours sincerely,
Ms Kim Pearson
Freedom of Information Coordinator
Girton College IT Department, Cambridge CB3 0JG
telephone: 01223 338987
email:
xxx@xxxxxx.xxx.xx.xx/ www.girton.cam.ac.uk
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