Serious Incident Statistics

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Johanna Langheld

Dear Girton 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 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?

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

Girton College, Cambridge

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received by email, which will be answered in due course.

The College continues to adhere to Government advice regarding the Coronavirus, self-isolation and working from home.

As a result, a number of departments are remote working. This will lead to a delay in the research and compilation of information relevant to your request. I will aim to finalise a response as soon as it is feasible given the current situation.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Freedom of Information Coordinator
Girton College
Huntingdon Road
Cambridge
CB3 0JG

FOI Coordinator, Girton College, Cambridge

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Dear Ms Langheld,

With apologies for the delay in replying - due to staff absences.

Please find attached to this email a response to your request of 7th April
2021.

Kind regards,
Ms K Pearson

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Freedom of Information Coordinator
Girton College
Huntingdon Road
Cambridge
CB3 0JG

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