FOI 617-2025 / June 2025 / Risk assessment
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST REFERENCE NO: 617-2025
I write in connection with your request for information which was received on 11th June 2025 as follows:
- Is it a standard provision or requirement in contracts with third-party providers of relevant services (e.g. domestic abuse services, victim support), for them to use the DASH risk assessment checklist as part of their service?
- Is it a standard provision or requirement in contracts with third-party providers of relevant services, for them to use the DARA risk assessment checklist?
- Please provide any other information that may provide helpful context
- Is it standard practice for your frontline staff to use the DASH checklist
- Is it standard practice for your frontline staff to use the DARA checklist
If the answer to any of the above is more complicated than a “yes/no”, please provide a short explanation.
Please find the Warwickshire Police response set out below.
Q1 response: Not a contract but it is an agreement that if a partner agency use the DASH risk assessment as part of their service provision and reports domestic abuse to the police, they complete the DASH which they send with the referral.
Q2 response: Partner agencies use DASH and not DARA.
Q3 response: DASH is a domestic abuse risk assessment tool which has been used by police and partner agencies for a number of years. The police have recently switched to DARA, while partners continue to use DASH.
Q4 response: No, they use DARA.
Q5 response: Yes, a DARA will always be completed by frontline staff in response to all incidents of domestic abuse.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided is as accurate as possible.
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Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Officer
Freedom of Information Unit
Warwickshire Police
PO Box 4
Leek Wootton
Warwickshire
CV35 7QB