Bringing Child Abusers to Justice

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Freedom of Information request -
Bringing Child Abusers to Justice

Dear Cheshire Police Authority,

For the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 please could you provide a year
by year break down of all Charges there have been under the
following Acts:

1. Children and Young Persons Act 1933 sect 1
2. Infanticide Act 1938
3. Indecency with Children Act 1960
4. Sexual Offences Act 2003
5. Protection of Children Act 1978 Sect 1
6. Child Abduction Act 1984
7. Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004 sect 5
11. Mental capacity Act 2005 sect 44

Please could you also state whether the person charged was male or
female.

Yours faithfully,

Sophie Rises

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Dear Cheshire Police Authority,

Please could you also state whether the victim was a child of the
family.

Yours faithfully,

Sophie Rises

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Dear Cheshire Police Authority,

I mean child of the offender.

Yours faithfully,

Sophie Rises

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Sophie

Thank you for your four emails regarding your FOI request. These have
been forwarded onto the Cheshire Constabulary as the Authority does not
hold such information. The Constabulary will contact you shortly.

Regards

Viv Craven
Authority

Sophie Rises To FOI requests at Cheshire Police Authority
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27/01/2011 17:34 Subject Freedom of Information request - Bringing
Child Abusers to Justice

Dear Cheshire Police Authority,

For the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 please could you provide a year
by year break down of all Charges there have been under the
following Acts:

1. Children and Young Persons Act 1933 sect 1
2. Infanticide Act 1938
3. Indecency with Children Act 1960
4. Sexual Offences Act 2003
5. Protection of Children Act 1978 Sect 1
6. Child Abduction Act 1984
7. Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004 sect 5
11. Mental capacity Act 2005 sect 44

Please could you also state whether the person charged was male or
female.

Yours faithfully,

Sophie Rises

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Dear Ms Rises,

I acknowledge receipt of your correspondence received 28/01/2011 which is
being dealt with as a request for information in accordance with the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I am in the process of dealing with your request and will respond in due
course and in any case by 25/02/2011. Please contact us by e-mail at
[email address] if you have any further enquiries.

Regards
Miss Jeyran Taheri
Information Compliance
Tel: 01244 614176
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Oakmere Road
Winsford
CW7 2UA
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Dear Mr Rises,

I acknowledge receipt of your correspondence received 28/01/2011 which is
being dealt with as a request for information in accordance with the
Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I am in the process of dealing with your request and will respond in due
course and in any case by 25/02/2011. Please contact us by e-mail at
[email address] if you have any further enquiries.

Regards
Miss Jeyran Taheri
Information Compliance
Tel: 01244 614176
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Cheshire Constabulary Headquarters
Clemonds Hey
Oakmere Road
Winsford
CW7 2UA
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This communication is intended for the addressee(s) only.
Please notify the sender if received in error. Internet email
is not to be treated as a secure means of communication.
Cheshire Constabulary monitors all Internet and email activity
and requires it is used for official communications only. Thank
you for your co-operation.

Dear (Insert Name)

I refer to your recent request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 as set out below:

For the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 please could you provide a year by year
break down of all Charges there have been under the following Acts:

1. Children and Young Persons Act 1933 sect 1
2. Infanticide Act 1938
3. Indecency with Children Act 1960
4. Sexual Offences Act 2003
5. Protection of Children Act 1978 Sect 1
6. Child Abduction Act 1984
7. Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004 sect 5
11. Mental capacity Act 2005 sect 44

Please could you also state whether the person charged was male or female.

Please could you also state whether the victim was a child of the family.

In relation to the years 2008, 2009 and 2010 please could you provide the
following information in relation to incidents
concerning protection of children:

1. how many reported incidents were graded as requiring:
a. A routine response?
b. A prompt response?
c. An urgent response?

2. In relation to question 1. How many of the incidences were reported
by:
a. School
b. Public
c. Victim
d. Social Services
e. Hospital
f. Other (please state)

3. In relation to 2C. How many of the victims were 'child of the
family'

4. In relation to 2d. How many were recorded as 'Welfare check'

5. In relation to the person investigated, how many were a 'known
offender'.

6. In relation to incidents that resulted in a Police Protection Order
was the reporter of the original incident
a. School
b. Public
c. Victim
d. Social Services
e. Hospital
f. Other (please state)

7. In relation to Police Protection Orders was the incident recorded
as:
a. A crime against a child
b. Mental Health Concerns
c. Domestic Violence
d. A crime against other
e. Other (please state)

8. How many Police Protection Orders were made in each year?

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided
below;

As both your requests relate to the same subject matter your requests have
been amalgamated in line with Section 12 (4) (a) of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. From our preliminary assessment, we estimate that
compliance with your request would exceed the appropriate costs limit
under section 12 of the Freedom of information Act 2000. This is currently
*450. The reasons for this are there are 8,946 incidents with the
qualifying code for "Vulnerable child or young person involved". To
obtain the level of detail requested (i.e. who reported the incident, if
the child involved was a family member etc.) would mean reading through
each incident. This it is estimated would exceed the appropriate limit.
The appropriate limit is defined in the Data Protection and Freedom of
Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004, which is
covered by statutory Instrument Number 3244 of 2004. Furthermore, Section
12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 allows a public authority to
refuse to respond to a request for information where the cost of
compliance would exceed the appropriate limit as defined by the above
mentioned regulations.

We can say that if you would care to re define your request we could
probably provide information in respect of how many charges there were,
whether the person was male/female, we could also provide the number of
incidents by grade (although we would require clarification of which
incident codes to use as below) within the FOI time/cost constraints.

If you wish to proceed with the above re definition could you please
advise if the suggested qualifying code would meet your requirements as
follows: "Vulnerable child or young person involved". This qualifier is
to be used to endorse any incident where the involvement of a child or
juvenile (aged 17 or under) has been a significant factor and where there
has been some risk to that child/juvenile and/or the age has been an
important factor. This qualifier should also be used for incidents
involving child protection concerns.

Please note: that when a child is removed under police protection powers
(where a reasonable cause to believe a child would otherwise be likely to
suffer significant harm) it is not an order granted by a court, so
therefore should not be referred to as a 'police protection order'.
Police protection is an emergency power and should only be used when
necessary, the principle being that wherever possible the decision to
remove a child/children from a parent or carer should be made by a court.
However, there may be circumstances where there is not enough time to
seek an emergency protection order.

Emergency Protection Orders are issued by a magistrate, and can be applied
for by Social Services or anyone like the police or a neighbour. Even if
the Police have applied for the EPO responsibility for care remains with
Social Services. Therefore information on EPO's will be held by the Local
Authority for the purposes of providing care and forms part of the
children's record.

If I can be of any further assistance in this matter, please do not
hesitate to contact me.

If you are not satisfied with the decision applied in this case I enclose
for your attention a copy of the Constabulary's appeal procedures.

Regards

Sarah Davies
Information Compliance
Tel: 01244 616556

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