Children's Social Care

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

  • Children in Temporary Care

    1. In 2021, 2022, 2023, how many children have been taken into care because their mother was remanded into custody? This could either be the number of children in total or the number of instances when it has happened (whichever … Continue reading →

  • Missing Albanian children

    1. How many Albanian children aged 17 or under have been reported as missing in your area in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 to date? 0 2. Of those reported missing between 2020 and 2023: a). how many remain missing … Continue reading →

  • Child Sex Abuse Ring Figures

    1. How many children were rescued from child sex rings in Devon in 2012 – 2022? 2. What age were they? 3. How many entered the local care system? 4. How many were adopted before they turned 18? In response … Continue reading →

  • Spend on social care agency staff

    This is a FOI request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Could you please provide the following information you have pertaining to spend on social care agency staff within your Council: 1. What was the total spend by your … Continue reading →

  • Looked after children

    I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for details of looked after children placed in residential children’s homes. More specifically, I am requesting the following: 1. The total number of looked after children the … Continue reading →

  • Data linkage Children’s Services

    Data linkage (also known as matching, entity resolution or record linkage) is the process of joining data sets through deciding whether two records, in the same or different data sets, belong to the same entity (Harron et al., 2016). Data … Continue reading →

  • Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews

    1. How many child safeguarding practice reviews the council has carried out in each year since 1 January 2020? To clarify, it is not Devon County Council who carry out these reviews, but the Devon Children and Families partnership. We … Continue reading →

  • Victims of Child Sexual Exploitation Offences

    What percentage of victims of child sexual exploitation offences, had a ‘Child in Need’ assessment undertaken? Please provide the figures from January 2016 – December 2022. Devon County Council believes compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate costs limit … Continue reading →