Sexual Violence and Homelessness Duties
Case reference FOI2026/01640
Received 3 August 2026
Published 24 August 2026
Request
I would like to request the following data from you, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Over the past 12 months:
1. How many women were owed a prevention or relief duty due to sexual violence, sexual abuse or sexual exploitation outside of the statutory definition of ‘domestic abuse’?
2. How many women who approached the local authority as homeless or at risk of homelessness due to sexual violence, sexual abuse or sexual exploitation outside of the statutory definition of ‘domestic abuse’ were not owed a prevention or relief duty?
3. For those in Question 1, whose prevention or relief duty ended with accommodation secured, please list the types of accommodation secured and the numbers in each type.
4. How many women were owed a main duty due to sexual violence, sexual abuse or sexual exploitation outside of the statutory definition of ‘domestic abuse’?
5. For those in Question 4 whose main duty ended with accommodation secured, please list the types of accommodation secured and the number of applicants in each type.
Response
Thank you for your recent request under the Freedom of Information Act.
Please find the answers to your queries below:
I would like to request the following data from you, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Over the past 12 months:
1. How many women were owed a prevention or relief duty due to sexual violence, sexual abuse or sexual exploitation outside of the statutory definition of ‘domestic abuse’?
3.
2. How many women who approached the local authority as homeless or at risk of homelessness due to sexual violence, sexual abuse or sexual exploitation outside of the statutory definition of ‘domestic abuse’ were not owed a prevention or relief duty?
8.
3. For those in Question 1, whose prevention or relief duty ended with accommodation secured, please list the types of accommodation secured and the numbers in each type.
N/A.
4. How many women were owed a main duty due to sexual violence, sexual abuse or sexual exploitation outside of the statutory definition of ‘domestic abuse’?
0.
5. For those in Question 4 whose main duty ended with accommodation secured, please list the types of accommodation secured and the number of applicants in each type.
N/A.
Please note that we do not separately identify whether sexually motivated. These figures relate to those approaching under the category ‘fleeing harassment’, which is captured separately to
‘domestic violence-victim’.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Team
Guildford Borough Council
Documents
This is Guildford Council's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.
You can browse our other responses or make a new FOI request.