Dear Sir,
FOI request: Governance related to sexual offending at the trust
1) Please disclose by each of the following years, the total number each year of incidents of sexual violence (including sexual assault and rape) reported by the trust to the Care Quality Commission:
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
2024/25
2025/26 YTD
2) If the data is held centrally and can be easily processed within FOIA limits, please advise how many of the incidents of sexual violence in the period April 2021 to 2026 YTD were perpetrated against patients.
3) It has been reported by the media that a patient was raped whilst under the trust’s care in the last financial year.
Please confirm if this is the case.
Please advise if and when the CQC was informed of this serious incident
Please advise:
a) if this incident took place on trust premises
b) whether the patient was under inpatient care
c) if the patient was detained under the Mental Health Act
Please advise what review if any has been undertaken by the trust, and what learning and Safeguarding improvements have been made since the incident.
4) Please advise if the trust undertakes any benchmarking to compare its rates of sexual violence against other comparator trusts, the results of any such benchmarking and any action plans arising.
Yours,

