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Publication Number: 1560
FOI Number: 20768
Information Request
'On 24 May 2024 Royal Assent was granted to The Victims and Prisoners Act. The new Act placed Operation Encompass into Law and puts a statutory obligation on police forces to share Operation Encompass notifications with schools.'
https://www.operationencompass.org/
1. For each month of June, July and August 2024, please provide the number of Operation Encompass notifications you shared with Key Adults in educational and early years settings.
2. Please specify how many of the shared notifications in each month related to children in (i) educational and (ii) early years settings.
3. Please specify the number of children the shared notifications related to in each month.
FOI Duty
First Duty – Essex Police does hold some information relating to your request.
Second Duty – See below
Fact – See below
Exemption – Not applicable
Essex Police can report as follows:
Caveat: The statements and data are correct as at 11 September 2024.
Notes
- Essex Police can provide data for ‘educational’ settings only, which may include early years within a school, i.e. reception.
- One notification is sent per child.
Results
Essex Police have sent the below number of ‘Operation Encompass’ notifications to ‘educational settings’:
June – 33 notifications were sent to the key adult in the educational setting. They related to 33 children.
July – 36 notifications were sent to the key adult in the educational setting. They related to 36 children.
August – 27 notifications were sent to the key adult in the educational setting. They related to 27 children.
Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete. However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries. Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies. Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.