Children's Social Care

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

  • Data protection for children’s records

    1.Please provide all documents, procedures, policies and / or protocols relating to data protection and information sharing held by the local authority in relation to assessments and support for families. Decisions regarding the sharing of assessments are made by social … Continue reading →

  • Suspected autism or asperger’s syndrome

    The Department of Health requires authorities to report on their progress in autism strategy (adult only) through self-assessment, and states that each local authority should have an ‘Autism lead’. i.What are your authority’s published referral pathways for children or young … Continue reading →

  • Child protection statistics

    Can you please supply the following information regarding referrals etc. to children’s social care or its predecessor for two cohorts of children? Children born in the year from 1st April 2011 to 31st March 2012, before their fifth birthday and … Continue reading →

  • Money Spent on Providing Social Care Provisions

    I would be grateful if you could provide information regarding monies spent on providing social care provisions through external agencies and companies issuing invoices of over £500 for works relating to the social care budget. Devon County Council each month … Continue reading →

  • OLM Eclipse System

    I understand, from previous FOI requests that the Council is in the process of moving from Carefirst to a new social care system called Eclipse, also supplied by OLM. 1)    Can you confirm whether this is correct? If so, is … Continue reading →

  • CareFirst annual support costs

    What was the annual support charge for children’s and adults social care for each of the following financial years: 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 What other annual charges does the council pay to OLM? For example, if the solution is hosted … Continue reading →