Serious Incident Statistics

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Johanna Langheld

Dear University of Kent,

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 Kent 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 Kent 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

Foi, University of Kent

Dear Ms Langheld,

Thank you for your information request. We will provide a response within 20 working days.

Kind regards,

Laura Anthony
Information Compliance Officer

University of Kent
[University of Kent request email]
www.kent.ac.uk/infocompliance/

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Foi, University of Kent

Dear Ms Langheld,

 

Thank you for your information request, received on 08/03/2021. Please
accept our apologies for the delay. Please find our response as follows:

 

 

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.

 

The University does not use the terminology of “serious Incident”. 
However, after a student death, we routinely hold meetings involving key
people at the University – e.g., Student Support and Wellbeing, Colleges
and Community Life, Campus Security, relevant staff from the
School/Division- particularly in relation to mental health incidents. 

 

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 Kent
conducted?

2018/19 – less than 5

2019/20 – less than 5

2020/21 – less than 5

 

b) How many serious incident reports were produced?

Please see answer to question 1

 

c) How many serious incidents involved a fatality?

Please see answer to question 1

 

d) How many serious incident reports and/or their findings has the
University of Kent shared with other institutions?

Less than 5 with the coroners

 

e) How many serious incident reports and/or their findings have other
institutions shared with you?

Zero

 

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

 

All numbers are rounded to the nearest 5 in line with the [1]HESA rounding
methodology.

 

Numbers fewer than 5 are withheld as potentially identifiable data, under
Section 40(2) (personal information) of the Freedom of Information Act.

 

 

 

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