Serious Incident Statistics

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Johanna Langheld

Dear University of York,

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 the University of York 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 the University of York 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

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Dear Johanna Langheld,
Freedom of Information Request Ref: F21_115
I acknowledge receipt of your email dated 3 March 2021 requesting
information from the University of York.
Please be advised that the University will respond as soon as possible and
in any event by 1 April 2021. 
Yours sincerely, 
Information Governance Team
Legal Services 
Corporate and Information Services
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD

 
  
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Dear Johanna Langheld,
Freedom of Information Request Ref: F21_115
Thank you for your request for information from the University of York.
Please see our response, which is attached to this email.
I hope this information is useful. 
Yours sincerely,
Information Governance Team | Legal Services

University of York 

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Dear Johanna Langheld,
Freedom of Information Request Ref: F21_115
I acknowledge receipt of your email dated 3 March 2021 requesting
information from the University of York.
Please be advised that the University will respond as soon as possible
and in any event by 1 April 2021. 
Yours sincerely, 
Information Governance Team
Legal Services 
Corporate and Information Services
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD

 
  
Web: [3]www.york.ac.uk/records-management/
Email disclaimer: [4]http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/em...

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