Email Correspondence on Conduct of Scouts
Dear St Edmund Hall,
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information:
1. Any email correspondence (including attachments) from September 2020 to December 2020 between students at St Edmund Hall and the Accommodation Manager OR Housekeeper that discusses the conduct of scouts in relation to COVID-19 guidelines.
2. Any internal email correspondence (including attachments) from September 2020 to December 2020 by the Accommodation Manager OR Housekeeper to any staff in St Edmund Hall that discusses the conduct of scouts in relation to COVID-19 guidelines.
Please note, emails referring to 'the conduct of scouts in relation to COVID-19 guidelines' could include any email complaints around scouts not following COVID-19 guidelines, any emails sent to scouts or other staff on how scouts should follow COVID-19 guidelines, or any other emails that explicitly discuss how scouts have or should be following COVID-19 guidelines.
Please provide the information in an electronic form.
If this request is unclear, I would be grateful if you could contact me as I understand that under the Act, you are required to advise and assist requesters.
If any information is redacted or cannot be provided, can you please explain under which exemption(s) of the Freedom of Information Act this action has been taken.
I understand that you are required to respond to my request within the 20 working days after you receive this letter. I would be grateful if you could confirm via email that you have received this request.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.
Yours faithfully,
Matthew Kayanja (MK)
Dear Matthew Kayanja
Thank you for your FOI request. We will process your query and aim to provide the information requested within 20 working days.
If we have any queries in the meantime, we will be in touch.
With all good wishes
Governance and Projects Team
St Edmund Hall | Queen’s Lane | Oxford | OX1 4AR
University of Oxford
w: www.seh.ox.ac.uk
Dear Matthew Kayanja
Please see the attached document. These emails are all related to the same
household where the students were concerned about the safety of their
scouts. Names have been redacted for GDPR reasons.
We can also confirm that the Accommodation Manager performed a verbal
“tool box” talk with all scouts upon their return to the College, as
scouts tend not to use their email addresses. In addition, the
Accommodation Manager also produced a risk assessment which she went
through with each scout.
With all best wishes
St Edmund Hall
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