1. How many children went into the care of your local authority as result of their mother, as sole caregiver, being sent to prison? Broken down for the following time periods:
a) January – May 2023
b) January – December 2022
c) January – December 2021
This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 as the cost of compliance would exceed the appropriate limit. Devon County Council does not hold this reason for starting care as a reportable field and therefore to gather this information would involve a manual review of 832 care records. It would take an average of 15 minutes to review each file thus taking a total of 208 hours to retrieve the information.
2. For every child who went into care for the above reason, of what crime was their mother convicted and sentenced?
This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 as the cost of compliance would exceed the appropriate limit. Devon County Council does not hold this reason for starting care as a reportable field and therefore to gather this information would involve a manual review of 832 care records. It would take an average of 15 minutes to review each file thus taking a total of 208 hours to retrieve the information.