FOI Request
Can you provide details of grants awarded in the financial years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024:
- For which at least one of the outputs/outcomes was to provide services to victims of stalking. This could be any service to help victims such as counselling, information and advice, or casework; or address perpetrator offending such as perpetrator intervention programmes, however there must be specific reference to working with victims of stalking.
- Please provide details of the grant including the amount, the service provider, the services provided and the specific stalking outcome/output.
- Please indicate with a y/n if the service is open to victims of stalking who are not ex-intimate.
FOI Response
2022-23
| Name of grant | Grant amount | Service provider | Services provided | Specific stalking outcome | Provides services for non-ex intimate victims of stalking |
| The OPCC did not specifically include stalking in any of our provisions before September 2023. | |||||
2023-24
| Name of grant | Grant amount | Service provider | Services provided | Specific stalking outcome | Provides services for non-ex intimate |
| Stalking Victims ISAC Provision | £95, 972 allocated but given September 2023 start date underspend of £61,117.00 allocated to deliver training as below | The Suzy Lamplugh Trust | 2x ISAC posts (1 FTE + 1×0.5 post) | To provide advocacy support to victims of stalking. To support Cleveland Police with Stalking Protection Order Applications. | Yes, non-ex intimate victims of stalking a priority within the grant agreement |
| Stalking Training | £22,528.57 (MoJ Victims uplift funding) Plus £60,099.00 of ISAC funding underspend as above. | The Suzy Lamplugh Trust | Provide specialist stalking training to Cleveland Police and key CJS partners as agreed with the grant manager from 1 January 2024 to 31 March 2024. 8 days training delivered by Suzy Lamplugh Trust which includes: Introduction to Stalking for 100 delegates 50 Frontline Police Officers (1 x 2.5 hours) for PCIU, FCR & Vulnerability desk and 50 frontline practitioners from partner organisations (1 x 1 hour online) Lifeline training (2 x 2 day workshops) delivered through e-learning for 200 delegates (Insp/Sgt and SME volunteers within teams) from Response & NHPT, Safeguarding and Prevention. Stalking Protection Order training (4 x 1 day workshops) for 60 delegates) to include relevant practitioners and legal. | To improve victim confidence in police response to stalking and to increase number of SPO applications to increase number of victims protected. | N/A |