Children's Social Care

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

  • Parenting skills support

    1. What is the total amount of funding allocated to parenting skills programs and support within your council for the last fiscal year for which data is available? This is currently Commissioned to Action for Children (AFC)  to deliver support … Continue reading →

  • Unregistered Children’s Homes

    1. How many looked after children were placed in an unregistered children’s home (not registered at the time of placement) for the financial years, 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23? Compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under Section … Continue reading →

  • Structure Chart for the Children’s Services Management Team

    Please provide a Structure Chart for the Children’s Services Management Team (in particular, Social Care Assistant Directors) including names and job titles. This information is available on the Strategic Leadership pages of the Devon County Council website.

  • Foster Care Statistics

    1. How many foster carers/families do you currently need in your area? 327 households 2. How many children/young people were in foster care between 2018-2023? 2023 (up to 30th June) 710 2022 838 2021 862 2020 887 2019 837 2018 … Continue reading →

  • Fostering data

    1. How many individual children (not placements) were placed into mainstream foster care by the LA over the past 12 months (or the most recent 12-month period that you’re able to process)? There were 856 unique children placed in foster … Continue reading →

  • Child Adoption

    1. For the most recent annual recording period that data is available, how many children were adopted by couples of the opposite sex? 26 2. Please provide the sex of the children. 16 female. 10 male. 3. How many children … Continue reading →

  • Grafton Childcare

    I’m looking to make a Freedom of Information Request, to find out how many safeguarding complaints have been made against Grafton Childcare (URN: 104599. Address: 24 Torquay Road, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 1AJ) since its opening in 1991. If there … Continue reading →

  • Letter of Issue

    Please provide a blank/template copy of your ‘Letter of Issue’ sent to parents when Children’s Social Care are going to apply to issue public proceedings in regards to the parent’s child/ren. Often it comes enclosed with a list of names … Continue reading →