Please can you provide me with information regarding the number of Looked After Children you have placed with Foster Carers and how many with IFA’s. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/594367/SFR41_2016_LA_Tables.xlsx Also please advise of the weekly costs related to these i.e. how much you … Continue reading
Children's Social Care
Statutory child protection, children in need, adoption and fostering services
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Childrens Act 1989 Section 17
Do you have any guidance or policy documents or other such written material in respect of undertaking assessments and providing support pursuant to section 17 of the Children Act 1989 to families with no recourse to public funds (including documents … Continue reading
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Children’s Act 1989 Section 37 Investigations
1. Number of section 37 Children Act 1989 directions you have been directed to undertake by the Family Courts per year from January 2011 – December 2016. 2. Whether you have been directed to undertake more than one section 37 … Continue reading
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Troubled Families filter
Could you please provide me with each of the local filter criteria you used during the first phase of the Troubled Families Programme. If you changed your local filter criteria during the first phase of the programme, could you please … Continue reading
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Post adoption letterbox contacts
In the last 12 months how many exchanges of letters have DCC dealt with ? We have interpreted your request to mean each month in 2016, the total was one thousand one hundred and eighty one. How many of those … Continue reading
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Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) or Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy (MSP)
I am applying under the FOI Act for the five years individually from 2012-2017 for the number of times your Social Services department or your legal department has instigated child protection/ safeguarding procedures because of concerns about ‘Fabricated or Induced … Continue reading
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Social worker registration numbers
Where can I check that a particular social worker is registered to practice and confirm their registration number ? Social workers are registered nationally and registration numbers are freely available on the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) website. Devon … Continue reading
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Children’s social care budgets
Please provide the approved budgets for children’s social care services in 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 and the individual overspends on the above budgets in 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17. Please see our response in the table below. Budget Overspend / … Continue reading
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Suicide by young person in care, fostering or home placement
Please provide numbers regarding suicide by a young person whilst in your care and in a fostering or children’s placement home for 2016, 2015, 2014. We may hold this information but locating and collating it would require a manual examination … Continue reading
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Care Leavers
How many eligible, relevant and former relevant young people are currently in your area between the ages of 16 – 24? As at 09/06/2017 there were 675 Care Leavers. All are aged between 16 and 24. Who are the chief … Continue reading