Children's Social Care

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

  • Unregulated Accomodation

    1. On how many separate occasions has Devon County Council housed looked after children (under the age of 16) in short term, emergency, unregulated accommodation? 110. Please note, this is the number of occasions children were living in unregulated accommodation types, … Continue reading →

  • Children’s Centres contract

    Please provide a list of all bidders that submitted tenders for the Devon Children’s Centres contract commissioned in 2017, which commenced on 1 April 2018 The bidding process is confidential and all entries are made with an expectation of confidentiality.  … Continue reading →

  • Childrens Occupational Therapy

    1. For the financial years (FY) 21/22 and 22/23, what was the average timeframe from referral to assessment by an occupational therapist? FY 21/22 – 14 weeks (mean) FY22/23 – 15weeks (mean) Devon County Council hold data that captures the … Continue reading →

  • 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 →