Please provide the following information about children’s home capacity.
A. How many children or young people do you have in :
1. Care?
861 (excluding short breaks) at 01/08/2024
Of those, how many are living within:
2. Mainstream fostering
451 (excluding friends and family)
2a. In-house
273
2b. Other
178
3. Kinship
110 (including kinship placements currently going through the approval process)
4. Children’s homes
100 (under the definition of residential children’s homes that are Ofsted regulated)
4a. In-house
10
4b. Other
90
5. Supported accommodation
95
5a. In-house
4
5b. Other
91
Please note the remaining 105 are in other accommodation/placements.
B. Local Authority operated children’s homes
1. Does your Local Authority operate its own children’s home/s excluding short breaks?
Yes
2. How many homes?
2 children’s homes are for only 52-week placements
2 children’s homes are for 52-week placements and short breaks providing 12 52-week beds when at full capacity
3. How many beds in total are there for all the homes?
12 52-week beds when at full capacity
C. Provider operated children’s homes
1. Does your Local Authority commission a provider to run homes for you?
No
2. How many homes?
N/A
3. How many beds in total are there for all the homes?
N/A
4. Name of the provider/s
N/A
D. Local Authority operated Short Breaks home
1. Does your Local Authority operate a Short Breaks children’s home?
Yes
2. How many homes?
2 children’s homes offering short breaks and 2 children’s homes providing only short breaks
3. How many beds in total are there for all the homes?
13 beds
E. Provider operated Short Breaks homes
1. How many homes?
0 homes. The previous short breaks home has now been taken over internally.
2. How many beds in total are there for all the homes?
N/A
3. Name of the provider/s
N/A
F. Plans for new homes
1. Are you planning to open any new homes?
Yes
2. If so, how many new homes?
8 properties have/ are being repurposed to offer different provisions, for example short breaks and 52-week stays, step -down from secure settings and ‘Staying Close’ accommodation in line with our sufficiency strategy.
3. How many new beds in total?
35
4. What is the predicted opening date for each home?
3 are already open, 2 are due to open in September and the remaining 3 are scheduled to open in January 2025.
5. Have you received executive/cabinet approval to proceed?
Yes
6. Did you receive grant funding?
Yes, for 6 of the properties.
7. From whom please?
The Department of Education
G. Residential Children’s home placements as of the nearest date to 1st August 2024:
1. How many children or young people (CYP) do you have living in residential children’s homes?
100 (under the definition of residential children’s homes that are Ofsted regulated)
2. How many of these CYP do you have in LA operated (in-house) residential children’s homes?
10
3. How many CYP are in private, voluntary or health run children’s homes?
90
4. How many CYP are in Secure Children’s Homes?
1 (secure children’s homes are counted separately to residential children’s homes)
5. How many children or young people in unregulated provision?
40 in unregulated semi-independent accommodation