Failure to adhere to COVID-19 guidelines

Band

Possible penalties/sanctions

Scenarios that would attract the requisite penalty/sanction

Band 1

• Fine (up to £50)
• Community service (up to a day)
• Verbal or written warning
• Letters of apology (for example to those affected or endangered)
• Essay, including about infection control or other relevant topic

• Crowding/a lack of social distancing between a medium to large group of students within a College or University building
• A group of students meeting in another student’s room where the number of students is beyond the number permitted
• A planned event intended to meet COVID restrictions but where the student continued to attend even once it became clear that restrictions could not be maintained

Band 2

• Fine (over £50)
• Community service (over a day)
• Restricting access to particular areas or spaces within College (e.g. library, outdoor space)
• Final warning

(other Band 1 sanctions can be included)

· A student being required to self-isolate but infringing the regulations (going to the dining hall, going into other students’ rooms, going to supervisions), when they have not received test results

· A planned event which purposefully breaches COVID-19 regulations for some reason (meeting at College, University or city location) – for example, unpermitted rave

Discipline Committee

Anything within the remit of the Discipline Committee

· Student coughing, spitting, heavy breathing over others for the purpose of implying they are attempting to give another person coronavirus