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FOI request (FOIR-713203502)
Assaults on frontline housing staff (2016-2025)
Requested Fri 09 May 2025
Responded Mon 30 June 20251. How many assaults were reported against your council's housing staff 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?
Response
2016-17
Total number of assaults: 1
Number of verbal assaults: 1
Number of physical assaults: 0
Number of sexual assaults: 0
Number of assaults involving a protected characteristic: 1
2017-18
Total number of assaults: 1
Number of verbal assaults: 0
Number of physical assaults: 1
Number of sexual assaults: 0
Number of assaults involving a protected characteristic: 0
2018-19
Total number of assaults: 0
Number of verbal assaults: 0
Number of physical assaults: 0
Number of sexual assaults: 0
Number of assaults involving a protected characteristic: 0
2019-20
Total number of assaults: 3
Number of verbal assaults: 3
Number of physical assaults: 2
Number of sexual assaults: 0
Number of assaults involving a protected characteristic: 0
2020-21
Total number of assaults: 0
Number of verbal assaults: 0
Number of physical assaults: 0
Number of sexual assaults: 0
Number of assaults involving a protected characteristic: 0
2021-22
Total number of assaults: 7
Number of verbal assaults: 7
Number of physical assaults: 4
Number of sexual assaults: 0
Number of assaults involving a protected characteristic: 0
2022-23
Total number of assaults: 3
Number of verbal assaults: 3
Number of physical assaults: 1
Number of sexual assaults: 0
Number of assaults involving a protected characteristic: 0
2023-24
Total number of assaults: 1
Number of verbal assaults: 1
Number of physical assaults: 1
Number of sexual assaults: 0
Number of assaults involving a protected characteristic: 1
2024-25
Total number of assaults: 5
Number of verbal assaults: 4
Number of physical assaults: 1
Number of sexual assaults: 0
Number of assaults involving a protected characteristic: 0
2025-26 (April to June)
Total number of assaults: 0
Number of verbal assaults: 0
Number of physical assaults: 0
Number of sexual assaults: 0
Number of assaults involving a protected characteristic: 0
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