Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme

I am looking for information on the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme. Specifically, could you please provide me with the following details?

1. The number of enquiries regarding the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme that the forces have received since the scheme was first introduced.

2. The number of applications under the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme that the forces have received since the scheme was first introduced.

3. The number of disclosures about registered child sex offenders that have been made by the force following enquiries or applications under the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme since the scheme was first introduced.

4. The number of referrals that have been made to children’s social services following enquiries or applications under the Child Sex Offender Disclosure Scheme since the scheme was first introduced.

In addition to the above could you also please state the actions made under the child sex offender disclosure scheme to date? Could you please provide specific details of?

Number of referrals to children's services

Number of information disclosures and nature of these disclosures

Number of other actions made and the nature of these actions

The cost of the scheme to your individual police authority in terms of FTE hours and other resources.

I am a 3rd year law student and I am looking for statistics on how many disclosures were made by your force under Sarah's law. I have contacted the Home office but they advised that I would have to contact all 43 forces to get the stats I require as they are unable to break them down.

Therefore, I would be grateful if I can have the stats for Sarah's law disclosures and how many cases were reported through the normal channels which were not part of the disclosure scheme.

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

Please note: Your two request for the same information have been combined. The answers to the more detailed second request answers your first request also.

Question 1: 49

Question 2: 20

Question 3: 5

Question 4: The Constabulary does routinely liase with relevant Children's Social Care Departments on matters relating to child protection, welfare and domestic abuse where children are involved etc and as such does not use the formal referral process.The Constabulary will liase with relevant Children's Social Care Departments in relation to every application.

• Number of referrals to children's services
• As per 4 above
• Number of information disclosures and nature of these disclosures
• The Constabulary has made two 'other' disclosures - both related to 'dangerous people'.
• Number of other actions made and the nature of these actions
• No information held.
• The cost of the scheme to your individual police authority in terms of FTE hours and other resources.

The Constabulary does not collate this information. There are a number of officers and police staff involved in a application, there is no requirement for officers / staff to record the time spent on individual enquiries tasks so therefore it would be impossible to provide any figures.