Counselling Services
Dear University of Edinburgh,
Please treat this as a Freedom of Information Request.
Could you please send me information as to -
1. How many students have used the student councilling services between each of the four academic years of 2012-13 and 2015-2016?
2. Please send a breakdown by gender for each year.
3. Please send a breakdown by year of study for each year.
4. Please send statistics as to how many students have sought help through the university for the following issues between each of the four academic years of 2012-13 and 2015-2016? -
4.1 -Self-harm
4.2 Eating Disorders
4.3 Depression and anxiety disorders
4.4 Substance Abuse (drug/alcohol)
4.5 Other Mental Health Issues
5. If you have a record of how many students received student councilling in the calendar year 2016-2017 then please provide this information.
6. Please send a breakdown by gender for the calendar year 2016-2017 if this is available.
7. Please send a breakdown by year of study for the calendar year 2016-2017 if this is available.
8. Please send statistics as to how many students sought help through the university for the following issues between the calendar years 2016-2017.
8.1 -Self-harm
8.2 Eating Disorders
8.3 Depression and anxiety disorders
8.4 Substance Abuse (drug/alcohol)
8.5 Other Mental Health issues
9. Lastly, please tell me what suicide prevention strategy the university currently has in place, if any.
You may want to refer to the University of Aberdeen's response to my FOI request for a simple way to send the data. https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c... Please note, questions 5-8 for the University of Aberdeen were slightly different.
Thank you for your time and help.
Yours faithfully,
Simone Kelly
Dear Ms Kelly
Thank you for your email of 14 February 2018 requesting information about the Student Counselling Service. I am writing to let you know that we have received your request and will process it as soon as possible, and certainly within 20 working days of the day we received the request. You will hear back from us by 14 March 2018 at the latest.
Yours sincerely
Iain Phillips
Information Compliance Officer
Records Management Section | The University of Edinburgh | Old College | Edinburgh EH8 9YL
www.ed.ac.uk/records-management
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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Dear Ms Kelly
Thank you for your email of 14 February 2018 requesting information about the Student Counselling Service. Please find our response attached.
Yours sincerely
Iain Phillips
Information Compliance Officer
Records Management Section | The University of Edinburgh | Old College | Edinburgh EH8 9YL
www.ed.ac.uk/records-management
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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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