Assaults on Health and Community Services staff (FOI)Assaults on Health and Community Services staff (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
12 July 2024.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
A
How many recorded incidents of violence have there been towards Health and Community Servies (HCS) staff members in a HCS setting each year for the past five years? |Please break the figures down by staff type.
B
How many of these, if any, have resulted in any form of legal action?
Response
A
Annual figures for recorded incidents of physical abuse / assaults towards staff each calendar year, from 2020 to date, are detailed in the table below. The figures include incidents across Health and Community Services (HCS) facilities, and in community settings.
| Year | Recorded Incidents |
| 2020 | 162 |
| 2021 | 170 |
| 2022 | 272 |
| 2023 | 310 |
| 2024 to date | 114
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Details of the staff group or designation of the staff member affected by these incidents was not a category available to report from the database prior to a system update in November 2022, though such information may be documented in the incident notes. Incidents of abuse towards non-HCS Government of Jersey staff may be recorded in the system. It is not possible to exclude any such incidents for non-HCS staff from the annual figures prior to November 2022.
Figures for staff groups of those affected by incidents of violence, as recorded from November 2022 to June 2024, are detailed in the attached table. Due to small numbers, it is not possible to provide a detailed breakdown by staff type / designation, as this could lead to the identification of individuals and breach the confidentiality of their personal information. Therefore, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied to protect the privacy of individuals.
Staff Affected by Physical Abuse - November 2022 to June 2024.pdf
B
No records of any claim or legal action have been identified.
Article applied
Article 25 - Personal information
(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.
(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –
(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and
(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.
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