Freedom of information response
PP57 Documents
1) Please provide the total number of PP57 documents received in 2022 by Children's Social Care from Essex Police and the outcome recorded by Children's Social Care for the PP57s received.
2) Please provide your policy (or similarly named or of sorts) that is available to social work staff relating to assessing and responding to PP57 documents.
- Please provide the total number of PP57 documents received in 2022 by Children's Social Care from Essex Police and the outcome recorded by Children's Social Care for the PP57s received.
1904 MASH contacts with a Referral Source Type of ‘Police’ received in 2022 (please note, the date parameters used are: 01/01/2022 – 31/12/2022).
22 had an outcome of ‘MASH Episode’
1034 had an outcome of ‘No Further Action/Information and Advice’
Fewer than 5 had an outcome of ‘Other Outcome’
133 had an outcome of ‘Progress to Active Intervention Episode’
714 had an outcome of ‘Transfer to Children’s Social Care’
2) Please provide your policy (or similarly named or of sorts) that is available to social work staff relating to assessing and responding to PP57 documents.
Social Work staff making threshold decisions in relation to contacts would use the Thurrock LSCP Pathway to Service and Threshold Intervention Document as guidance – this can be found on the Thurrock LSCP website:
Thurrock Local Safeguarding Children Partnership - Professionals (thurrocklscp.org.uk)
We are unable to provide an exact number for question 1 above as:
- There is a low number involved.
- The release of this information could identify individuals which would constitute their personal data under the Data Protection Act
- There is no prior expectation on the part of these individuals that their personal information would be published in the wider public domain under the FOI Act
- Personal data of any other person is exempt under section 40 (2) of the Data Protection Act.