What percentage of victims of child sexual exploitation offences, had a ‘Child in Need’ assessment undertaken? Please provide the figures from January 2016 – December 2022.
Devon County Council believes compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate costs limit under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time. We do not hold a centralised record of the information requested, as such, we would need to manually check the files of every child that was open to children’s social services within the specified time period. A 10 minute check of each of the thousands of files, would take much longer than the 18 hour appropriate limit.