FOI001664 FOI Housing

Short Description
Housing Staff Abuse
Reference number
FOI001664
Date
12/05/2025
Request

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)                    
 

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