European Institute for Gender Equality
European Institute for Gender Equality

Information System of Social Support for Families

Types of GBV

  • Intimate Partner Violence
  • Rape
  • Sexual Assault (excl. rape)
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Stalking

The data source collect any data on social support for families in need by type of service provided for a person

Purpose of data collection

  • Accountability
Other purpose: 

To create an effective system of social support.

Data available on

Victim

Background information

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Nationality
  • ID
  • Name
  • Ethnicity
  • Marital status
  • Dependants
Other: 

Data on family conditions: risk families, disabled family members, reasons to be identified as risk families; family income per person, family property value.

Relationship with perpetrator

Yes

Repeatedly suffering from GBV

Yes

Perpetrator

Background information

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Nationality
  • ID
  • Name
  • Ethnicity
  • Marital status
  • Dependants

Relationship with victim

Yes
Additional information: 

This means that it is recorded whether there exists a previous relationship between victim and offender (e.g. family, intimate partner) or not (stranger).

Re-offending

Yes

Witness

Background information

No information collected on Background information

Relationship with victim/perpetrator

No

Incident description by witness

No

Children witnessing IPV incident

Yes

Incident

Code system used

  • No codes used

Description of incident

  • Date/time
  • Harm/injuries
  • Location
  • Type of violence
Other: 

Geographical location where the incident occurred, what harm was suffered by a victim.

Protection order

Yes

In paper file this information is recorded and court's decision usually would be enclosed, but in electronic database this information will nor appear.

Civil justice data

Yes
Additional information: 

The decisions of the courts on divorce, child custody, maintenance is always enclosed to the paper file, but this information does not appear in the electronic form.

Incident respond resources

No information collected on Incident respond resources

Prosecution process

Stages of prosecution process

  • Withdrawals of complaints
  • Withdrawals of prosecution support
  • N. of cases reported for each incident
  • N. of cases initiated for each type of incident
  • N. of cases referred to court
  • Types of offense(s)

Defendant pleas/verdicts

No information collected on Defendant pleas/verdicts

Average time case through criminal justice system

No

Outcomes

This administrative data source does not collect information on Outcomes

Characteristics

Storage System

  • In paper form
  • Electronically (single files)
  • Electronically (database)
Other: 

All information about a person and argumentation to receive a support is done on paper and submitted to the municipality where a person has official residence. Later information about assigned services for a person is submitted electronically in the database of municipality which is transferred to the central database, managed by the Ministry of Social Security and Labour.

Frequency of updating

Monthly

Quality assurance process

The legal act indicates that a person himself/herself writes an application with a request for social support. The sharing of data with other registers such as Residence Register, Social insurance Register, Labour Exchange, Property Register indicates the accuracy of entering the data and correction if any mistake appears

Comparability

  • Geographical
  • Over time
  • None

Timeliness

No information available

Current developments

No information available

Relation with third parties

Reported to third parties
No
Used by third parties: 
Yes (partly)
Additional information: 

Information only on facts without release of data could be transferred under the request of other institution for which those data are necessary to perform their duties.

Reporter

  • Victim
  • Witness
  • Offender
Other: 

A person should apply for a support personally and submit written application to the municipality where a person has official residence.

Metadata

Organisation: 
Social Support Departments at Each Municipality
Sector:
Social protection
Geographical area: 
National
Geographical area remarks: 

Each municipality has to collect data about a family members in need for social support and submits data to central database.