Could you please provide the following information around your current supported housing services (excluding elderly residential care), floating housing support services and homelessness services for both adult and young people: a) Contract/s name (including whether it is adult or young … Continue reading
Children's Social Care
Statutory child protection, children in need, adoption and fostering services
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Children accommodated under Children’s Act 1989 provisions
(1) How many children under 5 (i.e. aged 0-4) are currently housed with their families by the local authority’s social services, on the grounds of support for a child in need under section 17 of the Children Act 1989? We … Continue reading
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Foster carer payments
Please can you tell me whether foster carers are given extra money for the items/occasions below on top of their regular allowance or whether these things have to be paid for out of their regular allowance. Can you tell me … Continue reading
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Childrens social care tender opportunities
Please can you advise us as to where Childrens & Social Services advertise there tender opportunities. A List of current, proposed and historical methods of advertising would be most helpful These tender opportunities are advertised on https://www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk/ We do not … Continue reading
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Disability Equipment
Please can you advise the overall spend on disability equipment (for example seating and standing) for children with special needs within the following periods; 2015/2016 – Actual spend 2016/2017 – Actual spend 2017/2018 ‘ Budgeted Please see the table below: … Continue reading
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Roma, gypsy and traveller children taken into care
We hold information in response to questions 1 – 3 but believe that disclosure may identify individuals unfairly and be against the reasonable expectations of the data subjects and therefore not comply with the first data protection principle – that … Continue reading
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Sheltered Housing
For each of the financial years 14/15, 15/16, 16/17 and 17/18 to November 1, what was the total number of safeguarding alerts your council received concerning people who are residents of sheltered housing or other supported living schemes? For each … Continue reading
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Spend on Social Care Agency Staff
Under the FOI act, please provide a response to the following questions with regards to the councils spend on social care agency staff. Total spend on agency staff in 16/17 £5,723,425.87 Total spend on social care agency staff in 16/17 … Continue reading
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Forced marriages
For each of the financial years 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 and 2016/17, please can you disclose: The number of reports received by the local authority relating to forced marriages or suspected forced marriages. We do not have a statutory requirement … Continue reading
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Adoption placement breakdowns
How many adoption placements (for children in the care of the council) broke down in each of the last five financial years (2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 & 2016/17)? The request relates to breakdowns that occur after a child has been … Continue reading