Sharing Additional Datasets
There are additional sources of information that may be useful for determining local priorities, managing performance and building a richer picture of the area both throughout the year and for preparing the strategic assessment. In some instances, it may be useful to share additional fields of the datasets covered by the duty to share, for example:
- Demographic information (age, gender, ethnic group) of victims, offenders or suspects.
- Information about the type of dwelling in which a deliberate fire took place.
Which data you choose to collate will depend on the locality and the particular priorities of the partnership. Some additional datasets are listed below:
- Census information and other socio-demographic information.
- Any supplementary incident datasets distinguished by the relevant qualifier, for example, youth-related, alcohol-related.
- Data collected on patients receiving treatment in Accident and Emergency departments, walk-in centres or other treatment centres for assault, suspected abuse, gun or knife wounds, and other crime and disorder related incidents.
- Information collected by the British Transport Police about incidents in the area.
- Offender management, including risk assessment information, through OASys (Offender Assessment System).
- Data from the National Offender Management Service and their providers.
- Alcohol misuse and attendance treatment programmes through organisations including Drug Action Teams.
- Children and Family Services information (e.g. truancy and additional information held on domestic violence, numbers of young people not in education or employment, bullying in schools).
- Youth Offending Team data and Department of Children, Schools and Families data.
- Trading standards data.
- Data held by the local authority on crime against the local environment.
- Data held by voluntary organisations, including data that can be used to identify non- reported incidents.
- Regional and national issues manifested locally (e.g. information about local problems that could be linked to serious and organised crime).
- Any other information shared routinely or for specific purposes within the partnership.
