Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 429-2023
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response in a separate attachment.
Please note that the reason 2020 is split into 3 reports, is because we didn’t merge the risk management system, and launch it until April 2020, following the merger of Gloucestershire Care Services, and 2gether. Unfortunately, the three systems categorise the sexual safety incidents differently, and back then 2gether, and Herefordshire Mental Health, were combined.
We will not be able to respond to questions 6 and 7 as the police would have dealt with those situations.
FOI Request
I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. I would like to request the following data specifically about Mental Health Act inpatients within your trust:
1. Please provide the number of allegations reported within your trust, clinical commissioning group or other care setting as defined, of
• Rape
• Sexual assault
• Sexual harassment
• Sexual misconduct
2. Please advise the location of these offences and or alleged offences broken down by location Mental Health Unit, Hospital, Other Hospital Setting to be clearly defined.
3. Please provide this data for the years - 2020, 2021, 2022 and to date. 4. Please provide a month by month and location. 5. Please identify if these allegations are:
• On Staff carried out by a staff Member
• On Staff carried out by a patient or visitor
• By Staff on a Patient
• By Staff on a visitor
• On Staff carried out by a visitor
6. For each of these allegations please advise if a suspect was identified and or arrested. 7. If a suspect was identified and the suspect was identified as a member or staff or a contractor to the trust, CCG or group.
• What was the outcome?
• Was the suspect subsequently arrested, charged, convicted or NFA?
• Was the suspect subsequently investigated, suspended or dismissed from the Trust.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits Section 12., it would be appreciated if you could provide advice and assistance Section 16 obligations of the Act. as to how I can refine my request. Should you hold information on some parts of the request but not others, please could you provide that information, rather than a blanket refusal.