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What is Clare's Law?

Clare's Law is a formal mechanism to make enquiries about an individual who you are in a relationship with, or who is in a relationship with someone you know, where there is a concern that the individual may be violent towards their partner.

Anybody can make an enquiry, but information is only given to someone at risk or a person who is in a position to safeguard the victim.

What is disclosed

If a potentially violent individual is identified as having convictions for violent offences, or information is held about their behaviour which reasonably leads the police and other agencies to believe they pose a risk of harm to their partner, a disclosure will be made to that person at risk or a person in a position to safeguard them.

Please note: if you make the application with concern for someone else you will not receive any detail of the information disclosed as this information will only be provided to the person at risk or someone in a position to safeguard them.

Common Law allows for disclosure to be made to safeguard people and for potential victims to receive specialist support to help them deal with their relationship.

Where the local decision making forum decides that there is a risk of harm to the potential victim that warrants a disclosure, it must then decide:-

• What will be disclosed – sufficient information to allow the recipient to make an informed choice, accompanied by a robust safety plan;
• To whom the disclosure should be made, i.e. the person best placed to safeguard the potential victim, which could be the victim themselves;
• How the disclosure should be made – by which agency, preferably in person and at a safe time and place.

What happens after you submit this form

Anybody can make an enquiry under Clare's Law (also known as the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme or DVDS), but information is only given to someone at risk or a person who is in a position to safeguard the victim.

How do we use this information

This service stores the information you provide as you progress through the form. Form submissions for this service that are not fully completed are automatically deleted after 30 days. If you contact us about a failed online submission, with your consent, we may retrieve your incomplete submission if it is still available to us. At our discretion, we may also review and process incomplete submissions where there is a threat to life, injury or vulnerability identified within the incomplete submission.

Once your form is submitted and processed, the information is retained for 7 days by this service while the information is transferred securely to the relevant force information systems.

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