Clare's law (FOI ref: 158A/25)

Request 

1. How many people applied to the force for the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (Clare's Law) between 1 January 2023 and 1 January 2024?
   
   2. How many disclosures made by the force between 1 January 2023 and 1 January 2024 were completed within the 28-day time frame.
   
   3. How many disclosures made by the force between 1 January 2023 and 1 January 2024 took between 29 days and 50 days?
   
   4. How many disclosures made by the force between 1 January 2023 and 1 January 2024 took between 51 and 100 days?
   
   5. How many disclosures made by the force between 1 January 2023 and 1 January 2024 took more than 100 days?
   
   6. How many people applied to the force for the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme (Clare's Law) between 01 January 2024 and 01 July 2024?
   
   7. How many disclosures made by the force between 1 January 2024 and 01 July 2024 were completed within the 28-day time frame.
   
   8. How many disclosures made by the force between 1 January 2024 and 01 July 2024 took between 29 days and 50 days?
   
   9. How many disclosures made by the force between 1 January 2024 and 01 July 2024 took between 51 and 100 days?
   
   10. How many disclosures made by the force between 1 January 2024 and 1 July 2024 took more than 100 days?

11. If there have been any delays, are you able to give any information of the reasons for these? 

Response 

Please find enclosed our response. 

11.If there have been any delays, are you able to give any information of the reasons for these?

Each application is individual and varies in the requirements for its completion. These reasons are unique to each application. Further information for delays is not specific recorded data, and therefore we would be providing an opinion.

Please be advised that this is not part is not a valid Freedom of information Act request as it does not fulfil Section 8 of the Act. It is not a request for specific recorded information, as it asks for "an estimate" or "an opinion", and the authority does not have to answer your question if this would mean creating new information or giving an opinion or judgement that is not already recorded.

Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that this data has been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request may be subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large-scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are considered when interpreting the data. 

The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of data which has relevance to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be considered when those data are used.  

If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.