Serious Incident Statistics

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Johanna Langheld

Dear Queens' 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 Queens' 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 Queens' 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

senior.bursar@queens.cam.ac.uk, Queens' College, Cambridge

Dear Ms Langheld

Further to your request dated 7 April, 2021 under the Freedom of Information Act, I can confirm that with the exception of medical records, which is medical in-confidence, Queens' College hold no such records.

If you feel that we have not dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act properly, the College’s procedures indicate that you may complain to the President who may be contacted at Queens’ College, Cambridge, CB3 9ET, email: [email address].

You also have the right to apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision on whether your request has been dealt with in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act. The Information Commissioner will usually expect complainants to have exhausted an organisation’s internal complaints procedures before accepting a complaint.

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

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Information Commissioner’s Office
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Yours sincerely

Jonathan Spence

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Jonathan Spence, MA (Oxon), MA
Senior Bursar

Queens’ College
CAMBRIDGE
CB3 9ET
Tel: 01223 335605
Email: [email address]

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