Workshop
The session explores issues that arise for universities in recognising and reducing the risk of student death in a university setting. The session outlines a university’s legal obligations to students (particularly in the context of student mental health), considers what the discharge of those obligations looks like in practice in connection with identifying and responding to risk, and addresses considerations in the event of a student death, including investigation by the police and/or the Health & Safety Executive and coronial inquest.
The session is co-delivered by specialist legal advisers and a university practitioner to provide a rounded exploration of the key challenges that a university may face in planning and implementing robust institution-wide student support arrangements and responding to concerns and incidents which do arise.
The session considers the importance of arrangements for identification, management and review of risk in providing timely and effective interventions for students experiencing mental health difficulties, and the need for such arrangements to sit alongside those for making reasonable adjustments for disabled students and for fair and lawful information sharing.
Explore and discuss broad principles and share your experiences, ‘lessons learned’ and points of good practice.