Children's Social Care

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

  • Agency social worker spend

    This request concerns the spending by your authority on agency social workers. Please state the total amount spent by your authority’s children’s services department on agency social workers in each of the following financial years. 2012-13        £2,206,696 2013-14        £3,042,336 2014-15        … Continue reading →

  • Residential care homes – children

    I am requesting figures for the number of children’s residential care homes outsourced to private providers in the area under the Council’s Authority. We have defined “outsourced to private providers” to mean the number of OFSTED registered children’s homes in … Continue reading →

  • National Transfer Scheme and DUBS

    1.Devon County Council has agreed to participate in the National Transfer Scheme for unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC’s), however Section 67 of the Immigration Act 2016 (The ‘Dubs Amendment’) additionally requires the Government to relocate and make arrangements for the … Continue reading →

  • 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 →