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Ms Angela Wileman

`What Do They Know'

		Date:	30 October 2009
Our Ref:	BBJ/sjm/FOI756835	Your Ref:	Request-19103-46a188c4

Dear Ms Wileman

Application for Information from the Council - Reference Number 756835

The application that was received by the Council dated 1 October 2009 has now been considered and this letter is a full response to that application. Please accept my apologies for the delay in replying.

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I hope that we have now supplied the information that you have requested. If you wish to discuss this letter or the information that is supplied then please contact me through the direct line telephone number above, but please leave a contact telephone number if I am unavailable. I can also be contacted by email [email address].

Yours sincerely

Bea Belgrave-Jones

Information Access Officer

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Freedom of Information Act

Please find Plymouth City Council's response to:

756835 Freedom of Information Request

Dated: 1 October 2009

Under the freedom of information act I would like to know numerical statistics in order by year during the period of 1998 to 2008 (or as far back as you can go without charging me) for the following;

	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
1) How many children were taken into Local Authority care on interim care orders and emergency protection orders under the category of emotional harm during the above period? (I do not wish you to include any children for any other categories of harm/abuse).	0	0	0	0	2	5	1	6	3	2	1

2) Out of these children who were taken into care for emotional harm how many of them were specifically for domestic violence between their parents? (Again, I do not wish you to include children who had violence directed at them as that would fall into a different category being physical abuse).	-	-	-	-	0	0	0	0	1	2	0

3) Out of these children who were put into care for domestic violence, how many were returned to family or extended family?	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	0	-

4) Out of these children how many were put on full care orders?	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	2	-

5) Of the children put on full care orders, how many were adopted during these periods?	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0	0	-

Please note that child in need categories are ascribed to every referral on the basis of the presenting problem but by the time of any court proceedings the balance of evidence might change so that a 'domestic violence' referral might transform to care proceedings on the basis of neglect . We rarely initiate proceedings solely on the basis of emotional harm since there is always an emotional harmful component of abuse or neglect.

Bronwen Lacey - Director of Children's Services

Services for Children and Young People

Plymouth City Council

Plymouth

PL1 2AA

Tel: 01752 668000

Fax: 01752 307403

Tel: 01752 307323 Direct Line

E-mail: [email address]