I am writing to submit the following Freedom of Information request.
We want to explore how the UK hate crime sector has changed over the last three years.
1. Is hate crime included in the council’s current Community Safety plan?
c Yes (if yes can you send us a pdf copy of the Community Safety plan?)
c No
c Don’t know
2. Does the council have a separate hate crime plan/strategy?
c Yes (if yes can you send us a pdf copy of the hate crime plan/strategy?)
c No
c Don’t know
3. Does the council have a designated hate crime lead?
c Yes (if yes – can you provide contact details so we can contact them)
c No
c Don’t know
4. Does the council service facilitate or take part in any hate crime forums?
c Yes (if yes – can you list the names of the council forums that the police service facilitates or takes part in)
c Local: yes/no (if yes _________________________________________)
c Regional: yes/no (if yes ________________________________________)
c National: yes/no (if yes _________________________________________)
c Other: ________________________________________
c No
c Don’t know
5. Does the Council have a designated hate crime information page on its website?
c Yes (if yes – please can you provide the URL link? _________________________________)
c No
c Don’t know
6. Does the Council facilitate hate crime reporting?
c Yes
c 3rd party reporting sites
c helpline
c others (please detail ______________________________________________________)
c No
c Don’t know - links on website: yes/no
7. Does the Council have a budget for tackling hate crime? What is/was that budget?
2022/23: ____________
2023/24: ____________
2024/25: ____________
8. Does the council have access to hate crime resources?
c Yes (if yes – please can you send us pdf copies of them?)
c report cards
c leaflets
c posters
c badges
c pens
c t-shirts
c Other: ________________________________
c No
c Don’t know
9. Does the council refer victims of hate crime to independent advice and support services?
c Yes
c Crimestoppers
c Stop Hate UK
c Victim Support
c Victim Support Northern Ireland
c The Community Security Trust (National Organisation for Jewish victims)
c TELL MAMA (National Organisation for Muslim Victims)
c The Monitoring Group
c GATE Herts (A national reporting service)
c Galop (National organisation supporting LGBT+ victims)
c East European Resource Centre (EERC)
c other – can you provide a list of independent advice and support services, the police service refers to.
_______________________________________
c No
c Don’t know
10. Is the council planning to participate in National Hate Crime Awareness Week 2022 (8-16 October)?
c Yes (if yes – can you tell us what the council is planning to do: _________________________________)
c No
c Don’t know
11. Has the council participated in previous National Hate Crime Awareness weeks?
c Yes (if yes – please can you tick the years that the police service has taken part in the national week)
c 2022
c 2023
c 2024
c 2025
c No
c Don’t know