In relation to children’s placement demand, sufficiency, and associated costs within your authority. Please provide the following information for the financial years 2023/24, 2024/25, and 2025/26 (year to date). Due to the way information is held, we can only report … Continue reading
Children's Social Care
Statutory child protection, children in need, adoption and fostering services
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Child placement costs – childrens’ homes, unregulated homes, residential special schools
1. Please provide the highest annual amount paid in the 2024/25 financial year for an individual child’s placement in either children’s homes, unregulated homes or residential special schools? Please state the nature of the placement e.g. children’s home. Please provide … Continue reading
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Children identified as at risk of or victims of exploitation
This request relates to data held by the local authority concerning children known to children’s services who have been identified as victims of, or at risk of, criminal exploitation and/or sexual exploitation, including where exploitation is linked to organised criminal … Continue reading
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Child Poverty Strategy
1. Does your council have (if yes please provide a copy): a. A Child Poverty Strategy No b. An All-Age Poverty Strategy. No 2. Does your council have a School Uniform Grant Scheme? (Please answer yes or no). No 3. … Continue reading
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Looked After Children and Residential Care Placements
Please provide the following information: 1. Total Looked After Children (LAC) Demographics The total number of Looked After Children currently under your authority’s care, in any form of care, categorized by: Age Range: Under 1, 1-4, 5-9, 10-15, 16 and … Continue reading
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Registered Foster Carers Hosting Asylum Seekers from Other Countries
How many Devon County Council registered foster and care families are currently hosting asylum seekers from Afganistan, Iran, syria, other middle east and African countries. Including those classed as minors? Devon County Council has four council-registered foster and care families … Continue reading
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Referrals for Children Taking or Being Prescribed Puberty Blocking Medication
This is a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 relating to children’s social services referrals. For each year of the last five years, I would like to know: 1) The number of child safeguarding referrals that … Continue reading
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Out-of-Hours / Emergency Duty Team Service
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I request information about your Out-of-Hours / Emergency Duty Team (EDT) service for Children’s and/or Adults’ Social Care. I would appreciate data for the current financial year (2025/26) and, where readily available, the … Continue reading
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Children Services and Adults Services
Can you please provide the below information for Qualified Social Care for both Children’s Services and Adult’s Services: Names of Team Managers Breakdown of teams in each service (i.e. Duty & Assessment / Safeguarding / Locality / Children In Care) … Continue reading
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Serious incidents in unregistered children’s homes
Please find Devon County Council’s response to each of your questions below. 1) How many looked-after children died in unregistered children’s homes in each of the following years: 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25? . Nil 2) What were the ages … Continue reading