I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please provide the following data for your council:
1. How many assaults were reported against your council's housing staff (all housing officers + any other council staff who work directly with council housing tenants) in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and in the first quarter of 2025?
2. For each of these years, how many of these assaults were verbal?
3. For each of these years, how many of these assaults were physical?
4. For each of these years, how many of these assaults were sexual?
5. For each of these years, how many of these assaults involved abuse related to a protected characteristic/hate speech?
To provide this data, please could you complete the table below (also attached):
Year Total number of assaults Number of verbal assaults Number of physical assaults Number of sexual assaults? Number of assaults involving a protected characteristic
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025 (January to March)
FOI001664 FOI Housing
Short Description
Housing Staff Abuse
Reference number
FOI001664
Date
12/05/2025
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