Children's Social Care

Statutory child protection, children in need, adoption and fostering services

  • 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 →

  • 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 →

  • 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 →

  • Children Placements Team and Care Quality Commission

    Could you please provide the following information: 1. Children residential Services: Telephone number for your Children Residential Placements Team. Email address for your Children Residential Placements Team. Email address for Supported Accommodation placements 16 plus. Telephone number for the children … Continue reading →

  • Lucy Faithfull Foundation

    – how many Lucy Faithfull Foundation assessments the council has either commissioned or used in its decision making in each year over the past five years where the person being assessed had a history of child sexual abuse – the … Continue reading →

  • Children’s homes

    Please can you tell me: * how many children’s homes there are in your local authority area * how many are local authority controlled and how many are private * how many are registered with Ofsted * how many are … Continue reading →

  • Children in care and care leavers

    Please can you tell us how many child in care and care leavers there are in Devon as of 1st Jan 2025.  We were looking for information relating to children and young people who are the responsibility of Devon County … Continue reading →

  • Children and Young People’s Services

    Please may I make the following FOI request regarding your services for Children and Young People? 1. What case management system do you use for children’s services? Eclipse. 2. Please provide the name(s), email(s), and telephone number(s) of the individual(s) … Continue reading →

  • Child protection proceedings

    1. As of 1st December 2024, does your local authority collect data on how many women aged between 16-25 years old in your local authority are subjected to child protection proceedings during and or after their pregnancy? Yes 2. If … Continue reading →