Please provide the following information which is requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000:
- The number of UAS children which represent the 0.1% threshold in the NTS Protocol for your local authority.
Our estimate based on Devon County Council Population 2021/23 is approximately 150
- The number of UAS children which are currently within the care of your local authority as looked after children, as at the date of this request, for the purposes of sections 17, 20 and/or 22 of the Children Act 1989;
69
- The number of British citizen and/or ordinarily resident children (i.e. non-UAS children) which are currently within the care of your local authority as looked after children, as at the date of this request, for the purposes of sections 17, 20 and/or 22 of the Children Act 1989;
821
- The number of UAS children for whom your local authority has been requested to accept the transfer of functions from another local authority via the NTS since 14 December 2021;
To extract this information would require a manual review of the records referred to in the response to question 3 above. Using an estimate of 10 minutes per record, this would therefore total 137 hours. This is in excess of the appropriate time limit of 18 hours and we are therefore not obliged to provide this information pursuant to section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
- The number of UAS children for whom your local authority has accepted the transfer of functions from another local authority via the NTS since 14 December 2021;
76 since January 2022. We do not hold this information prior to January 2022
- The number of UAS children for whom your local authority has declined the transfer of functions from another local authority via the NTS since 14 December 2021;
Nil
- Where your local authority has declined the transfer of functions in relation to UAS children via the NTS since 14 December 2021, the reason or reasons given in each case for declining the transfer of functions.
Please see our response to question 4 above.
- The number of UAS children, if any, which your local authority has referred for transfer via the NTS since 14 December 2021;
Nil
9. Where your local authority has accepted the transfer of functions in relation to UAS children via the NTS, the number of days – on average – which elapse between the request first being made from your local authority and the physical transfer of the UAS child concerned to your local authority’s area; .
Please see our response to question 4 above. However, we have reviewed a random 10 UASC referrals (via all routes) and calculated an average number of days between referral and placement. This gave a figure of 22 days
10. Where your local authority has accepted the transfer of functions in relation to UAS children via the NTS, the proportion of those transfers which are completed within 10
working days from when the request was first made to your local authority;
Please see our response to question 4 above.
11. Confirmation of whether the Home Office and/or the SSHD has taken any enforcement actions, including by threatened legal proceedings, to require your local authority to accept the transfer of functions for UAS children from another local authority.
Tthe authority has not refused to accommodate young people allocated to DCC via the NTS so no enforcement actions would be needed.