As the debate surrounding a statutory duty of care for students enters Parliament, it becomes even more important to understand what such a duty might mean, entail or include.
(TW: Suicide, depression, mental health)
For many, it conjures up a problematic image of a university being asked to “look after” adults – in loco parentis by another name, in a situation where universities and their staff might only have a limited impact on students’ lives.
We’ve covered before here the way in which the Learn Network (the group of bereaved parents of students who have died by suicide at university) and the sector (represented here by Universities UK or here by AMOSSHE) often seem to be talking at cross-purposes when responding to the call for such a duty.
