Serious Incident Statistics

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Johanna Langheld

Dear Robinson College,
I am requesting information 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 Robinson 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 Robinson College shared with other institutions?
e) How many serious incident reports and/or their findings have other institutions shared with you?

In the case of (d) and (e), please specify the different types of institution that were involved in the sharing e.g., other university, UUK, NHS, PHE, Mental Health Trust, OfS, DfE, etc

Yours sincerely

Johanna Langheld

Elizabeth Pettit, Robinson College, Cambridge

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Our Ref: FOI 2021-15

 

Dear Ms Langheld

 

Re: Freedom of Information request – Serious Incidents Statistics

 

Thank you for your email received by the College on 7 April 2021 with the
following questions:

 

For each of the academic periods 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21:

 

           (a)          How many serious incident investigations has
Robinson College conducted?

           (b)          How many serious incident reports were produced?

            (c)          How many serious incidents involved a fatality?

 

Answer: The only incident falling into the above categories above was in
2019.  The death of this student was widely reported in the press and
subject to a coroner’s review, I attach the link to the Coroner’s report
(dated 5 August 2020) which followed the inquest.  

 

[1]https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uplo...

 

           (d)          How many serious incident reports and/or their
findings has Robinson College shared with other institutions?

           (e)          How many serious incident reports and/or their
findings have other institutions shared with you?

 

In the case of (d) and (e), please specify the different types of
institution that were involved in the sharing e.g., other university, UUK,
NHS, PHE, Mental Health Trust, OfS, DfE, etc

 

Answer to (d) and (e) is none.

 

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As part of any internal review Robinson College’s handling of your
information request will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in
providing you with this response. If you remain dissatisfied after this
internal review, you would have a right of complaint to the Information
Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information
Act.

 

Information Commissioner

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Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

Yours sincerely

 

Elizabeth Pettit

 

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