Children's Social Care

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

  • Children and Young People’s Services

    Please may I make the following FOI request regarding your services for Children and Young People? 1. What case management system do you use for children’s services? Eclipse. 2. Please provide the name(s), email(s), and telephone number(s) of the individual(s) … Continue reading →

  • Child protection proceedings

    1. As of 1st December 2024, does your local authority collect data on how many women aged between 16-25 years old in your local authority are subjected to child protection proceedings during and or after their pregnancy? Yes 2. If … Continue reading →

  • Care Leavers

    Please provide: 1. A copy of the local authority’s ‘local offer’ to care leavers that was in place on 1 October 2024. This information can be found at the following link Devon’s Local Offer to Care Leavers. 2. A copy … Continue reading →

  • Unregulated placements for children

    Could you please answer the following questions. 1) What was the recruitment agency spend on unregulated placements for children under the age of 16 in 2023 (01/01/23 – 31/12/23)?  £3,847,914.00 2) How many children under the age of 16 were … Continue reading →

  • Looked after Children Housing

    How many children are currently looked after by the Local Authority in each of the following – residential childrens homes, fostering or unregulated / temporary housing? As at the 1st December 2024, there were 108 children looked after in Registered … Continue reading →

  • Child Custody Data

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I would like to request the following information: 1. The number of children removed from their mothers and placed with their fathers by Devon County Council Social Services: Between 1 January 2022 and 31 … Continue reading →

  • Independent Childrens Residential Homes Providers

    Can you share the list of independent childrens residential homes providers commissioned by the local authority? Please note that the Flexible Purchasing System is commissioned as Peninsula Authorities, which includes Devon. Aspris Birchwood Cambian Five Rivers Idem Living Headway Keys … Continue reading →