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
Children's Social Care
Statutory child protection, children in need, adoption and fostering services
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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
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Children’s Social Work teams and agency workers – 2017 to date
Has your local authority employed any entire children’s social work team, sometimes referred to as a managed team, through an agency over the last five years? How many teams have you used ? Please provide details as a year-on-year breakdown. … Continue reading
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Children and Family Child Protection Investigations
Between 1st January 2020 and 31st December 2021: 1.How many children and family child protection investigations involved a child with a disability? 321 Section 47 meetings involving at least one child with a disability 2. How many children and families … Continue reading
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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
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Number of Child abuse or neglect from 2018 to 2021
1) How many cases of child abuse or neglect were referred to the council in the years; a) 2018, b) 2019, c) 2020 and d) 2021? 2018 2019 2020 2021 3,049 2,578 2,636 4,376 2) For the cases referred to … Continue reading
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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
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Full time and agency social workers – employment and spend – 2019 to date
Please could I ask the following questions regarding Children’s Services under the Freedom of Information Act: 1. How many full-time staff social workers are currently employed in the children’s services department? 189.25 FTE Social Workers. 2. How many locum/agency social … Continue reading
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Female genital mutilation referrals
What is the number of referrals for Female Genital Mutilation made in your area for each year since 2015? We should clarify that we do not record this data at referral, only at assessment so we have obtained this information … Continue reading
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Children in care – nationality, accommodation and care leaver support
How many children in the care of the local authority (I.e. on a care order under s.31 Children Act 1989) are non-British EU, EEA or Swiss national citizens? Of these, how many: * have made applications to the EU Settlement … Continue reading