Exeter College Oxford
Turl Street, Oxford, OX1 3DP
Ref. 21.07
24th February 2021
Reply to request for information under Freedom of Information of Act
Your Ref
Email date: 28th January 2021
Address
Gwendy Davenport <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx>
Request
Dear Exeter College, Oxford,
I am writing to you today with a Freedom of Information Request regarding the
experience of non-academic staff working in college since the March 2020 lockdown.
The information I request is:
How many non-academic members of staff have been furloughed since the
beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic?
How many non-academic members of staff are currently furloughed?
What provisions have been taken by the college to protect the health and safety of
non-academic members of staff during the Covid-19 pandemic?
How many non-academic members of staff have contracted Covid-19 since the
beginning of 2020?
Yours faithfully,
Gwendy Davenport
Reply
Dear Gwendy Davenport
How many non-academic members of staff have been furloughed since the beginning of the Covid-
19 pandemic?
77 staff
How many non-academic members of staff are currently furloughed?
66 staff
What provisions have been taken by the college to protect the health and safety of non-academic
members of staff during the Covid-19 pandemic?
This College Risk Assessment is publically available here.
Specifically (and this is by no means an exhaustive list), the College has encouraged home-
working wherever possible. During Hilary Term, all public areas are closed, no catering is
provided, only students resident in College properties may enter the premises (unless for
teaching). During Michaelmas Term, additional communal space was provided with a
Marquee to allow social distancing, the College has introduced social distancing in the Hall,
Scouts no longer go into inhabited student rooms, managers have access to a dynamic
record of self-isolating students so that they can tell their staff which rooms to avoid, some
staff are now permitted to use the car park in college so that they don't have to use the bus,
screens have been installed in front of customer-facing staff (e.g. Lodge, Hall, etc), all staff
have been asked to complete online Covid training, staff who are Clinically Extremely
Vulnerable and/or pregnant have been furloughed, information about health and wellbeing
initiatives available through the University has been circulated.
How many non-academic members of staff have contracted Covid-19 since the beginning of 2020?
The College does not hold this information.
Yours
Petronella Spivey
College Secretary
Internal Review
If you are dissatisfied with this reply, you may ask the College to review it, by writing to the Freedom
of Information Officer at the following address:
Exeter College,
Turl Street,
Oxford,
OX1 3DP.
Alternatively, you may request a review by e-mailin
g fxx@xxxxx.xx.xx.xx
THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER
If, after the internal review, you are still dissatisfied, you have the right under FOIA to apply to the
Information Commissioner for a decision as to whether your request has been dealt with in
accordance with the FOIA. The Information Commissioner’s address is:
Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123113
