Children's Social Care

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

  • Child and family poverty

    At any point between 2010 and 2014 did your local authority publish a Child Poverty Needs Assessment and develop and publish a Child Poverty Strategy or Family Poverty Strategy? Does your local authority currently have a Child Poverty Strategy and/or … Continue reading →

  • Criminal Exploitation

    I submit the following request for information under the Freedom of Information legislation to your Local Authority concerning criminal exploitation of children and young people. This information will be used for a national policy report, and individual Local Authorities will … Continue reading →

  • Looked After Children

    Based on the latest available figures:  How many Looked After Children, who are in the care of the local authority, are:   (a) EU (non-UK) citizens  Devon County Council does not record nationality.  Therefore, this information is not held  (b) have … Continue reading →

  • Dublin III children

    We would be grateful if you could now provide the following information: 1. In your initial response to us you stated that: ‘Devon County Council currently have 39 children – 24 as child in care and 15 care leavers.’ At … Continue reading →

  • Social work staffing expenditure

    This request concerns the Council’s social work provision for both children and adults for the 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18 budget years. Should the following questions exceed your time and budgetary restrictions, we ask that as per Section 16 of the … Continue reading →

  • Parental alienation training

    Why do you not list any training in relation to Parental Alienation (PA) given your obligations under UK legislation  There is no relevant UK legislation specifically related to parental alienation and neither Devon County Council nor the Devon Children and … Continue reading →