FOI 165725
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 165725
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 11th April 2022. Please find below the response to your request:
In April last year (2021) the NSPCC-managed Report Abuse in Education helpline was set up in response to thousands of reports of recent and non-recent abuse of young people, particularly in schools and colleges.
By December, of the 979 reports into the helpline, it was reported 95 allegations were referred on to police forces through the national child sexual abuse hub at Operation Hydrant.
As a Freedom of Information request can I ask whether your force received any of these 95 referrals? If so, how many?
If you did not receive any could you please specify that.
Have any other referrals been passed to police from the same helpline between December 31 2021 and April 1 2022? If so, how many?
Reply
I can confirm that West Mercia Police holds the information you have requested
As a Freedom of Information request can I ask whether your force received any of these 95 referrals? If so, how many?
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Have any other referrals been passed to police from the same helpline between December 31 2021 and April 1 2022? If so, how many?
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