Children's Social Care

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

  • Children and Family Centres

    1) How many children used children’s centres, family hubs, and children and family centres in your local authority, in each of the following financial years? If you record both face-to-face and digital reach, please specify the figures for each separately … Continue reading →

  • Digital and online contact arrangements

    Please could you confirm whether your local authority has formal policies and/or formal guidance in place to support digital or online contact arrangements specifically? (Y/N). If yes, please could you answer the following questions. 1. Do you have formal policies … Continue reading →

  • Children Social Care group conferences

    For the period starting 1st January 2020 and ending 31st December 2021, for your local authority: (This is relating to children and families’ social services/ child protection teams.) a) How many family group conferences have been held? 278 b) How … Continue reading →

  • Parent and carer advisory committee

    For the period starting 1st January 2020 and ending 31st December 2021, does your local authority: (This relates to children and families social services departments.) a) Have a parent and carer advisory committee? b) Have a stakeholder advisory committee? c) … Continue reading →

  • Children and Adult Social Care

    Please can you provide the name, direct telephone number and email address for the following senior management positions responsible for Social Care Performance Management and IT: 1. Head of Adult Social Care Performance: This would be the individual with overall … Continue reading →

  • Child protection

    1. In your authority’s children’s services department, what was the highest caseload of a frontline child protection social worker as of 1 April 2022? Please explain how the figures are calculated on occasions where there are multiple children in a … Continue reading →