FOI 187-24 DV Referrals to Support Services
Enquiry Reference: 187-24
I write in connection with regards to your Freedom of Information request. Below is your request and our response.
Please provide the following information, from 2015 to the present day. Please provide monthly data on:
- The number of domestic abuse cases that were referred to domestic abuse support services. Please provide this as both a raw number and percentage of cases.
- Which support service the cases were referred to.
- The instructions given to officers regarding how to make referrals to domestic abuse support services.
- Please include any materials such as flyers or digital materials provided to officers as guidance on referrals.
- If you are able, please provide information on how officers access guidance and instructions on making referrals, for example whether it is provided during training or officers need to seek it out themselves.
Having made enquires within the Force, we do not hold some of the requested information – In this case our response is no information held.
I have provided you will all the information we hold below. Officers are currently provided training in the form of DA Matters.
PVP cannot extract the number of referrals that have been made to support agencies since 2015. The data is not extractable by Performance Team because there is no single OEL template in relation to sharing with agencies – any sharing is documented in the general risk assessment OEL, from which the information is not extractable.
Niche will not provide specific data in a search either. It would involve a search of all PPN’s from 2015 and a manual count of the number of referrals made to DA support agencies. This would take several weeks.
PVP Hub provide the number of high risk domestic abuse incidents that have been risk assessed by the team each month. All high risk domestic abuse incidents are shared with DA support agencies, irrespective of consent, due to the level of risk. Below is the data recorded since the PMF was commenced, giving a monthly breakdown of all high risk incidents processed. This is the minimum number, therefore, of referrals made each month to support agencies since January 2022. I’ve also collated the number of medium risk incidents. PVP Hub share any medium risk incidents when consent has been given to support agencies. There are significantly more medium incidents each month than high risk, thus, a manual count of well over 20,000 incidents just from January 2022 to present day, would be required to determine how many medium risk incidents were shared. So, although the number of high risk incidents gives you a definitive number of incidents shared with DA support, the actual number will be much, much higher.
|
Month/Year |
High – all referred to DA Support |
Medium – consent based referrals |
|
January 2022 |
225 |
810 |
|
February 2022 |
Missing. Technical issue |
|
|
March 2022 |
197 |
859 |
|
April 2022 |
196 |
1007 |
|
May 2022 |
196 |
1007 |
|
June 2022 |
182 |
1048 |
|
July 2022 |
205 |
1265 |
|
August 2022 |
193 |
1201 |
|
September 2022 |
189 |
1063 |
|
October 2022 |
171 |
1115 |
|
November 2022 |
157 |
1069 |
|
December 2022 |
134 |
1091 |
|
January 2023 |
124 |
986 |
|
February 2023 |
114 |
942 |
|
March 2023 |
139 |
1006 |
|
April 2023 |
129 |
1015 |
|
May 2023 |
143 |
1142 |
|
June 2023 |
161 |
1114 |
|
July 2023 |
152 |
1223 |
|
August 2023 |
141 |
1158 |
|
September 2023 |
122 |
1039 |
|
October 2023 |
151 |
1105 |
|
November 2023 |
147 |
1076 |
|
December 2023 |
177 |
1257 |
|
January 2024 |
146 |
1123 |
Please note that all statistical data supplied in relation to Freedom of Information requests is a snapshot of data held at the time the request was received by the Freedom of Information office and is subject to constant change/updates.
The Cleveland Police response to your request is unique and it should be noted that Police Forces do not use generic systems or identical procedures to capture and record data therefore responses from Cleveland Police should not be used as a comparison with any other force response you receive.
If you are not satisfied with this response or any actions taken in dealing with your request, you have the right to request an independent internal review of your case under our review procedure. The APP College of Policing guidance states that a request for internal review should be made within 20 working days of the date on this response or 40 working days if extenuating circumstances to account for the delay can be evidenced.
Yours sincerely,
Information Governance Manager