Children's Social Care

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

  • 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 →

  • 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 →