Undergraduate Harassment Statistics and Victim Support Information
Dear University of Oxford,
I would like to request the following information and data, provided they are held by the University.
1) The total number of harassment and/or discrimination incident complaints or reports the University has received from undergraduates between the years 2013 and 2017. If the information is held by the University and not subject to confidentiality arrangements, please provide this information broken down by college.
2) The information requested in (1) broken down into the following categories:
• Sexual harassment in any form
• Gender-based harassment and/or discrimination
• Sexual orientation-based harassment and/or discrimination
• Ethnicity-based harassment and/or discrimination
• Targeted bullying in any form
3) The total number of individuals who are the subject of harassment and/or discrimination incident complaints or reports the University has received from undergraduates between the years 2013 and 2017. If the information is held by the University and not subject to confidentiality arrangements, please provide this information broken down by college.
4) The total number of individuals who have been reprimanded, suspended, and/or expelled for reasons directly related to being the subject of harassment and/or discrimination incident complaints or reports the University has received from undergraduates between the years 2013 and 2017. If the information is held by the University and not subject to confidentiality arrangements, please provide this information broken down by college.
5) The information requested in (3) and (4) broken down into the following categories:
Ethnicity:
• White
• BME
• Information Refused/Unknown
Domicile:
• UK
• EU
• Non-EU/International
• Information Refused/Unknown
Sex:
• Male
• Female
Please note that all the aforementioned classifications are being used by the University in publicly-available student statistics found here: https://www1.admin.ox.ac.uk/aad/studentr...
6) Details of the procedure of an undergraduate filing a complaint or report of an incident involving harassment and/or discrimination, whether an undergraduate may submit such a complaint or report anonymously, and what steps the University typically takes upon receipt of such a complaint or report, and the support available to victims.
7) The results or reports of any assessments of the adequacy of the University's harassment and/or discrimination reporting and investigation mechanisms, and/or of victim support schemes, conducted between 2013 and 2017.
8) How much the University has spent on investigating harassment and/or discrimination claims each year, between 2013 and 2017, and the number of staff the University has employed or assigned for this purpose, between 2013 and 2017.
9) How much the University has spent on support for victims of harassment and/or discrimination each year, between 2013 and 2017, and the number of staff the University has employed or assigned for this purpose, between 2013 and 2017.
10) Whether the University has plans to improve or review its harassment and/or discrimination reporting and investigation mechanisms, and victim support schemes, and if so, what these plans are.
Yours faithfully,
Margaret Hall (Ms.)
Dear Ms Hall,
I write to acknowledge receipt of your request.
I interpret questions 1-5 as seeking details of complaints submitted by undergraduates regarding other students from the University. I would be grateful if you could confirm that this is correct so that we may continue to process your request.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Oxford
Dear UAS Foi,
Thank you for your quick response. That is indeed correct - I apologise if that was not made clear in the original request.
Yours sincerely,
Margaret Hall (Ms.)
Dear Ms Hall,
Many thanks for clarifying. We shall send you a response by the statutory deadline of 27th March 2018.
Yours sincerely
FOI Oxford
Dear UAS Foi,
I write to remind you that the statutory deadline has passed; could I please have an update as to the status of my request.
Yours sincerely,
Margaret Hall (Ms.)
Dear Ms Hall,
We apologise for the delay in responding to your freedom of information request. Increasing levels of workload in all areas of information compliance, including the need to plan for the introduction of new data protection legislation from 25 May 2018, have created pressures which have had an adverse effect on our ability to meet statutory deadlines. We hope to be able to respond to your request by 01 May 2018 and will contact you again should there be any risk of further slippage.
Yours sincerely
Information Compliance Team
Council Secretariat | University of Oxford
University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JD
Dear UAS Foi,
I write to remind you that the statutory deadline has passed; could I please have an update as to the status of my request.
Yours sincerely,
Margaret Hall (Ms.)
Dear UAS Foi,
The response to my request is long overdue. While I understand the difficulty of your increasing workload, slippage to such a degree is quite beyond the pale.
Kindly update me as to the status of my request immediately, or I shall be compelled to request an internal review.
Yours sincerely,
Margaret Hall (Ms.)
Dear Ms Hall,
We apologise for the delay in responding to your freedom of information request and appreciate that this may be very frustrating. For the reasons set out in our email of 10th April, we are experiencing resulted in a backlog of requests which we are doing our best to get on top of but this does take time.
We hope to be in a position to respond to your request by 8th June 2018.
Yours sincerely,
Information Compliance Team
Council Secretariat | University of Oxford
University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JD
Dear UAS Foi,
My request is now close to four months overdue - I'm afraid I'm quite disappointed indeed. Even if the University considers my request vexatious and declines to provide the information, which I sincerely hope it does not, a reply would be well in order.
Yours sincerely,
Margaret Hall (Ms.)
Dear Ms Hall,
I am writing to apologise for the very long delay in responding to your FOI request of 27 February.
As will be evident from the delay, we have been experiencing significant difficulties as a result of an increase in workload, arising in part from the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation and in part from a general increase in the number of requests for information, both under the Freedom of Information Act and data protection legislation. We have employed some extra temporary staff to help us reduce our backlog.
I hope to be able to reply to your request by 31 August.
Again, my sincere apologies for the delay.
Yours sincerely
Max Todd
Assistant Registrar (Information Compliance)
Information Compliance Team
Council Secretariat
University Offices
Wellington Square
Oxford
OX1 2JD
01865 280299
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/councilsec/abo...
Dear Ms Hall,
With apologies again for the long delay, I attach our response to your FOI request of 27 February.
Yours sincerely
Max Todd
Assistant Registrar (Information Compliance)
Information Compliance Team
Council Secretariat
University Offices
Wellington Square
Oxford
OX1 2JD
01865 280299
http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/councilsec/abo...
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JP left an annotation ()
I would urge you to raise a complaint directly with the ICO. The university has not offered you an internal review, so there is no reason why you cannot do this immediately. The more people alert the ICO to the present unacceptable situation, the more likely it is that the university will be placed under monitoring to ensure future compliance.
https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/