1.Combining the calendar years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, how many Looked After Children had three or more placements during a single calendar year?
There were 361 unique children who had 3 or more placements within 1 of the years 2016, 2017, 2018 or 2019. If a child had 3 plus placements in more than 1 of these years, they are only counted once.
2. In each calendar year for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, how many Looked After Children had three or more placements that year?
3+
2016 115
2017 109
2018 115
2019 104
Some children will appear in more than 1 year so these figures do not add up to the figure in question 1
3. Combining the calendar years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, how many Looked After Children had five or more placements during a single calendar year?
There were 71 unique children who had 5 or more placements within 1 of the years 2016, 2017, 2018 or 2019. If a child had 5 plus placements in more than 1 of these years, they are only counted once.
4. In each calendar year for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, how many Looked After Children had five or more placements that year?
5+
2016 20
2017 17
2018 28
2019 17
Some children will appear in more than 1 year so these figures do not add up to the figure in question 3.
5. Combining the calendar years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, how many Looked After Children had ten or more placements during a single calendar year?
There were 3 unique children who had 10 or more placements within 1 of the years 2016, 2017, 2018 or 2019. If a child had 10 plus placements in more than 1 of these years, they are only counted once.
6. In 2019, did any Looked After Children have ten or more placements during the calendar year?
Yes
7. In each calendar year for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, how many Looked After Children had ten or more placements that year?
10+
2016 1
2017 1
2018 0
2019 1
8. Under the duty to assist, please could the council tell me how it records the type of abuse where ‘abuse or neglect’ is the recorded category for Looked After Children? I am interested in whether the recorded abuse was directed towards the child, or instead towards another household member (e.g. mother). Are these only recorded in each child’s case file, or is this level of detail captured in the council’s statistics? And what is the council’s estimate of the time required to examine a single case file for that information?
When a child enters care a primary need code is recorded and identifies the overall primary need for the child, Devon doesn’t specifically record a subcategory of this to differentiate between cases in a reportable way.The ‘abuse/neglect’ data is recorded against individual child case records and only there. We estimate that the needed to examine a single case file would be between 2 and 3 hours.