Sexual Harm & Physical Violence on Site 2024-25
Reference: 25-26011
Date response sent: 23/04/2025
Details of enquiry
Please provide me with the following information about incidents of sexual harm and physical violence that have taken place at your trust. Incidents of sexual violence include, but are not limited to, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexual assault and rape. (See after the question for clarification on these definitions.)
If possible, please use one of the attached spreadsheets to provide your answers. Please also explain any gaps in your data. Please ensure that the data you provide is for financial years, not calendar years.
Response sent
In line with guidance issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office, Information Commissioner’s Office – Advisory note to public authorities | ICO this Trust does not provide data as excel spreadsheets/workbooks, in order to mitigate risk to personal information. Therefore, we have provided the information you have requested into the provided csv file, and have also pasted the response into the body of this response, below as pdf table/s, for our own ease of reference.
We have masked low numbers as the symbol ‘≤ 5’, which indicates where numbers are equal to 5 or less than 5, as it is the NHS England standard not to provide data where the numbers are smaller than 6 as this may lead to identification of individuals. For this reason and in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) Section 40(2) and Section 40(3a) (Personal Data) and Section 41(1) Information obtained in confidence from a third party, disclosure of this type of personal data or easily identifiable personal data would thus be unfair, breaching GDPR Principle (a): Lawfulness, fairness and transparency. As this is an absolute exemption, we do not have to apply the Public Interest Test when engaging this exemption
The Trust recognises a high level of interest from public in how the public purse is spent on services, and must balance this against disclosure of small numbers and the years in which instances occurred, which – whilst not directly identifying individuals, would nevertheless give rise to a disclosure of personal data, as follows:
- As we are a small Trust, there is a high chance of recognition/identification of particular individuals/patients by fellow patients or others from the low numbers.
- This masking of low numbers is not a just a question of considering the means reasonably likely to be used by general public, but also the means likely to be used by a determined person with a particular reason to want to identify individuals from data in the public domain now or in the future, and/or gained from other sources.
| NHS trust name: | Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust | ||
| Questions | |||
| 1 | How many sexual safety incidents did the trust record in the financial year 2024-25? (This includes incidents by all alleged perpetrators against all alleged victims: staff, patients, visitors, members of the public) | ||
| 2024-25 | Notes, e.g. gaps in data | ||
| Answer: | 17 | ||
| 1.1 | How many of these incidents took place on the trust premises? | ||
| 2024-25 | Notes, e.g. gaps in data | ||
| Answer: | 14 | ||
| 1.2 | How many sexual safety incidents on the trust premises did the trust record in the financial year 2023-24?* | ||
| 2023-24 | Notes, e.g. gaps in data | ||
| Answer: | ≤5 | *My previous FOI asked for total incidents for 2022-23 and 2023-24 but did not specifically ask for only those incidents that occurred on the trust premises. If your previous response only covered incidents on the trust premises please answer ‘no change’. | |
| 1.3 | How many sexual safety incidents on the trust premises did the trust record in the financial year 2022-23?* | ||
| 2022-23 | Notes, e.g. gaps in data | ||
| Answer: | no change | *My previous FOI asked for total incidents for 2022-23 and 2023-24 but did not specifically ask for only those incidents that occurred on the trust premises. If your previous response only covered incidents on the trust premises please answer ‘no change’. | |
| 2 | How many sexual safety incidents allegedly perpetrated by staff against patients did the trust record in the financial year 2024-25? | ||
| 2024-25 | Notes, e.g. gaps in data | ||
| Answer: | 0 | ||
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3 |
How many sexual safety incidents allegedly perpetrated by patients against other patients did the trust record in the financial year 2024-25? | ||
| 2024-25 | Notes, e.g. gaps in data | ||
| Answer: | ≤5 | ||
| 4 | How many sexual safety incidents allegedly perpetrated by patients against staff did the trust record in the financial year 2024-25? | ||
| 2024-25 | Notes, e.g. gaps in data | ||
| Answer: | 6 | ||
| 5 | How many sexual safety incidents allegedly perpetrated by staff against other staff did the trust record in the financial year 2024-25? | ||
| 2024-25 | Notes, e.g. gaps in data | ||
| Answer: | 0 | ||
| 6 | How many of the sexual safety incidents did the trust record where the victim was a patient under 18 (this includes victims under 16 and under 13) in the financial year 2024-25? | ||
| 2024-25 | Notes, e.g. gaps in data | ||
| Answer: | ≤5 | N.B. Only include incidents that took place on the trust premises. | |
| 6.1 | How many of the sexual safety incidents did the trust record where the victim was a patient under 16 (this includes victims under 13) in the financial year 2024-25? | ||
| 2024-25 | Notes, e.g. gaps in data | ||
| Answer: | ≤5 | N.B. Only include incidents that took place on the trust premises. | |
| 6.2 | How many of the sexual safety incidents did the trust record where the victim was a patient under 13 in the financial year 2024-25? | ||
| 2024-25 | Notes, e.g. gaps in data | ||
| Answer: | ≤5 | N.B. Only include incidents that took place on the trust premises. | |
| 7 | How many incidents of physical violence perpetrated by patients against staff did the trust record in the financial year 2024-25? | ||
| 2024-25 | Notes, e.g. gaps in data | ||
| Answer: | 50 | ||
| 7.1 | How many incidents of intentional/deliberate physical violence perpetrated by patients against staff did the trust record in the financial year 2024-25? | ||
| 2024-25 | Notes, e.g. gaps in data | ||
| Answer: | 50 | ||
| 7.2 | How many incidents of un/non-intentional/deliberate physical violence perpetrated by patients against staff did the trust record in the financial year 2024-25? | ||
| 2024-25 | Notes, e.g. gaps in data | ||
| Answer: | 0 | ||