Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI 073-2025
Thank you for your recent Freedom of Information request. Please find our response below.
You asked:
1. Does your Trust provide mental health services for:
Adults (18+) and children and adolescents (under 18)?
Our response:
Yes
You asked:
2. Please provide a brief overview of the services provided to adults
Our response:
Alexandra Wellbeing House offers a new service model working closely with individuals who are at risk of experiencing frequent acute emotional distress. It focuses on proactive interventions and person-centered therapy-based approaches to empower individuals on their journey towards improved mental health and wellbeing.
Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team provides urgent help and advice to individuals who are feeling vulnerable.
Homeless Healthcare Team and Special Allocation Scheme offers permanent registration for those patients with a high level of need, and provides a safe environment for patients who have been removed from GP lists and are registered on the SAS scheme.
Mental Health Intermediate Care team (MHICT) is a primary care mental health nursing team that provides an integrated care needs assessment, planning and treatment service for adults experiencing mental health problems. Most of the referrals are signposted to other services.
Maxwell Suite provides a place of safety for people detained by police under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act because they appear to be suffering from a mental disorder and need immediate care.
Talking Therapies offers support to individuals who are feeling depressed, anxious or stressed.
You asked:
3. Please provide a brief overview of services provided to children
Our response:
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) offers children, young people and families emotional and mental health care that places child and family needs at the centre.
Young people and families can be reassured they are receiving care and support of a high standard and NHS services are working well with partner agencies like education, social care and community organisations.
The system is made up of a broad range of services, that deliver the help needed:
– Universal help for worries, sadness and emotional difficulties many children and young people feel. This kind of help is offered by people like family, teachers, youth workers and club coaches.
– Additional help for difficulties that have started to impact a lot of the time and are causing concern. This kind of help is offered by trained professionals through therapy such as counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy.
– Specialist help for mental health needs that are long lasting and severe and haven’t been helped by the support offered above.
You asked:
4. Please provide the current number of employees
Our response:
6,261
You asked:
5. Please provide your organisations safeguarding team structure, including executive, named Dr’s, all statutory and non-statutory roles and administration support including: job titles (specifying adults and or children), MCA, Prevent etc. Please include grade.
Our response:
The Trust has a clear line of safeguarding governance, leadership and accountability. The Trust has an identified Safeguarding Team, positioned within the Quality Directorate. The Trust Director of Nursing, Therapies and Quality, Nicola Hazle, holds overall responsibility for Safeguarding. Nicola is supported by Hannah Williams, Deputy Director of Nursing, Therapies and Quality and the Head of Safeguarding, Paul Gray (8B) who is also the Prevent Lead and Sexual Safety Lead.
The Trust’s Consultant Psychiatrists are the Named Doctors for Safeguarding Children. Kirsty Sedgeman (8A) is Named Nurse for Safeguarding Children, Jonathan Newman (8A) is the Named Nurse for Safeguarding Adults and both manage teams of specialist Safeguarding Practitioners.
We have two MCA Leads (B7).
Having carried out a public interest test, we apply the exemption, S(2) 36 – prejudice to effective conduct of public affairs.
You asked:
6. Please can you kindly share, whether the safeguarding function is managed centrally or across individual service area:
Our response:
Managed centrally.
You asked:
7. What the safeguarding team duties include
Our response:
Adults:
Advice line, facilitated training, including delivering of Level 3 Safeguarding
Weekly adult supervision sessions – accessible to all staff
Coordination of all MARAC health related information shares
Attendance in Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARS), Domestic Abuse Related Death Reviews (DARDR) and Rapid Reviews.
Children:
Safeguarding group supervision each month
Advice line, facilitate neglect training
Safeguarding team staff and the safeguarding nurses are part of the Gloucestershire Child Death team chairing meetings
You asked:
8. Do you provide Looked After Children services?
Our response:
Yes
You asked:
9. Is the LAC team part of the safeguarding team?
Our response:
No
You asked:
10. Who is the lead for implementing sexual safety?
Our response:
Paul Gray, Head of Safeguarding
Nursing, Therapies and Qualities Directorate
You asked:
11. Who is the lead for managing allegations against staff?
Our response:
Paul Gray, Head of Safeguarding
Nursing, Therapies and Qualities Directorate
You asked:
12. Who manages the child protection invites i.e. centrally, operational teams, safeguarding etc?
Our response:
All strategy discussion invites for all of health come into MASH health. These are sent out to local teams, hospital or general practice.
If it is an urgent meeting, MASH health will attend. All CP invite meeting will be sent to the Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Public Health Safeguarding administration to send to practitioners, these administration are not part of our safeguarding team.
You asked:
13. Please could you kindly share the following data
Safeguarding Adults
Total number of Safeguarding Adult referrals made to the local authority per quarter from Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
Our response:
We do not hold the data for periods Q1 and Q2
Quarter 3 (2024/2025) – 122
Quarter 4 (2024/2025) – 113
You asked:
14. Total number of referrals by Care Act category of abuse per quarter from Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
Our response:
We do not record the information requested
You asked:
15. Total Number of Prevent Referral Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
Our response:
Zero
You asked:
16. Total Number of Allegations against staff referred to the local authority between April 2024 to March 2025
Our response:
4
You asked:
17. Total Number of allegations against staff managed internally between April 2024 and March 2025
Our response:
9
You asked:
Safeguarding Children
18. Safeguarding children referrals made to the local authority per quarter from Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
Our response:
We do not hold accurate data for periods Q1 and Q2 and the local authority has been unable to provide the information.
Quarter 3 (2024/2025) – 162
Quarter 4 (2024/2025) – 151
You asked:
19. Referrals by Children Act category of abuse per quarter from Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025 –
Our response:
We do not record the information requested
You asked:
20. Total Number of Children Early Help referrals per quarter from Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
Our response:
We do not record the information requested
You asked:
21. Total Number of Prevent Referrals Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
Our response:
1
You asked:
22. Total Number of Allegations against staff referred to the LADO between April 2024 to March 2025
Our response:
8
You asked:
23. Total Number of allegations against staff managed internally between April 2024 and March 2025
Our response:
2
You asked:
Child Protection Engagement Data
24. Total % of engagement (attendance or report) with Children protection Initial Case Conferences per Quarter Q1 2024 through to Q4 2025
Our response:
We do not record the information requested
You asked:
25. Please clarify the % proportion of attendance per quarter
Our response:
We do not record the information requested
You asked:
26. Please clarity the % proportion of reports send instead of attendance
Our response:
We do not record the information requested
You asked:
27. Total % of engagement with Review Child Protection Conferences per Quarter
Our response:
We do not record the information requested
You asked:
28. Please clarify the % proportion of attendance per quarter
Our response:
We do not record the information requested
You asked:
29. Please clarity the % proportion of reports send instead of attendance
Our response:
We do not record the information requested
You asked:
Domestic Homicide Review, SAR’s and Rapid Reviews
30. Total Number of DHR’s which the organisation has contributed to April 2024 to March 2025
Our response:
5
You asked:
31. Themes of DHR’s in this time frame
Our response:
Victims experience of coercive and controlling behaviour, complex presenting needs, perceived lack of engagement, experience of trauma, a need to see the bigger picture of domestic abuse and not look at incidents in isolation, economic abuse, protected characteristics, the role of family and friends, domestic abuse and risk of suicide, child to parent abuse, mental health and physical ill health
You asked:
32. Total Number of SAR’s which the organisation has contributed to April 2024 to March 2025
Our response:
8 (before a SAR decision was made)
3 SAR reviews commissioned in this time period
You asked:
33. Themes of the SAR’s in this time frame
Our response:
Self-neglect, complex needs/severe and multiple disadvantage, homelessness, transition (young people to adult), domestic abuse, exploitation, neglect, attempt to complete suicide by fire
You asked:
34. Total Number of Rapid Reviews which the organisation has contributed to April 2024 to March 2025:
Our response:
3
You asked:
35. Themes of the RR in this time Frame
Our response:
Neglect, criminal exploitation, sexual abuse, parental substance misuse, domestic abuse, parental mental health, adultification, trauma informed care, medical neglect, children with disabilities, escalation, professional curiosity.
You asked:
Training
36. Do you delivery DASH training?
Our response:
Yes
You asked:
37. Are your trainers accredited?
Our response:
No
You asked:
38. Please provide training compliance as of Q4 2025 for the below:
Children Safeguarding Level 1
Children Safeguarding Level 2
Children Safeguarding Level 3
Adults Safeguarding Level 1
Adults Safeguarding Level 2
Adults Safeguarding Level 3
Prevent
MCA
Our response:
| Mandatory Training | Overall Compliance |
| Mental Capacity Act Level 1 | 97% |
| Mental Capacity Act Level 2 | 88% |
| Prevent Level 1 | 99% |
| Prevent Level 2 | 93% |
| Prevent Level 3 | 97% |
| Safeguarding Children and Adults Level 1 | 97% |
| Safeguarding Adults Level 2 | 95% |
| Safeguarding Children Level 2 | 95% |
| Safeguarding Adults Level 3 | 91% |
| Safeguarding Children Level 3 | 84% |
Next steps:
Should you have any queries in relation to our response, please do not hesitate to contact us. If you are unhappy with the response you have received in relation to your request and wish to ask us to review our response, you should write to:
Louise Moss
Head of Legal Services / Associate Director of Corporate Governance
c/o Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward Jenner Court
1010 Pioneer Avenue
Gloucester Business Park
Brockworth, GL3 4AW
E-mail: louise.moss@ghc.nhs.uk
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