Children's Social Care

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

  • Children’s Services contacts

    Please provide the Name, Job title, Email address and Contact telephone numbers for the respective heads of service and service managers within your Children’s Services department, spanning Looked after Children, Child Protection and Fostering & Adoption. Information in response is … Continue reading →

  • Adoption Support Services

    Please can you supply information as follows about Adoption Support Services which you deliver or procure: 1. Between 1st April 2022 and 31st March 2023 how many self-employed providers have you procured adoption support (or SGO) services from? 137 providers.  … Continue reading →

  • Fostering

    1) On average, how many therapy hours per package were provided for i) LA-provided foster care and ii) IFA-provided foster care, over the past 12 months (or the most recent 12-month period that you’re able to process)? 1)a) If possible, … Continue reading →

  • Looked After Children

    1. How many looked after children (LAC) were identified as having a British citizenship, each calendar year between January 2020 – December 2022 inclusive? 2020 2021 2022 1002 1017 1025 2. How many LAC were identified as having a non-British … Continue reading →

  • Family Group Conference

    1. Does Devon County Council hold Family Group Conferences, or similar meetings as a standard part of your process? Yes. The meetings are called family group conferences. 2. Do you provide this service internally? Yes. 3. On average, how many … Continue reading →