1. Does your local authority have a process to refer children to targeted early help services when their case is closed after a Child in Need assessment? Yes 2. For each of the periods and age groups as stated above, … Continue reading
Children's Social Care
Statutory child protection, children in need, adoption and fostering services
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Children & Families Commissioning Team, Placements Team and Looked After Children Team
1. Please provide the team structure of the Children & Families Commissioning Team, including but not limited to the names of Head of Children’s Commissioning and the Commissioning Manager for Looked After Children. This can be seen at Children and Families … Continue reading
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Youth Justice Service
Please can I request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act, relating to the Youth Justice Service: For each of the following financial years (separately): 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 1) Number of under-18s referred to the Youth Justice … Continue reading
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Supported Accommodation and Support Services for Children in Care and Care Leavers
Please provide detailed information regarding your local authority’s commissioning and delivery of supported accommodation and support services for children in care and care leavers, including Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC). Please respond to the following questions in full. Where possible, provide … Continue reading
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Looked After Children and Risk of Exploitation
I am writing to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, relating to looked after children in your care: For each calendar year from 2020 to 2024 (inclusive), please provide: 1. The total number of looked … Continue reading
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Deprivation of liberty orders
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please could you provide the following information about deprivation of liberty orders? How many deprivation of liberty orders for under 18s were applied for by the authority from 2020-2025? Please could this be … Continue reading
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Charging parents of children in local authority care
Please provide the following information that your local authority holds (please tick if relevant): 1. Does your local authority have a current policy of charging parents whose children are in the care system? No 2. Does the local authority have … Continue reading
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Looked After Children
1. Please tell me the total number of looked after children in the care of your authority during each of these time periods 2022 2023 2024 01/01-31/05/2025 1152 1208 1202 981 We should clarify that these are the total numbers … Continue reading
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Child Sexual Exploitation
1. Does the council have a standalone Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) strategy? If so, please provide a copy of the most recent version. This can be seen at the 2018-2021 strategy: Exploitation of Children Strategy 2018-2021 – Devon Safeguarding Children … Continue reading
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Children Services Statistics
1. How many children are looked-after by the local authority? 857. 2.How many of these children are looked-after as a result of or because they were at risk of abuse or neglect? 443. 3. How many of these children are … Continue reading