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Children Education and Families Directorate, PO Box 118, Grays RM17 6GF

Telephone: Grays Thurrock (01375) 652652

Fax: (01375) 652792 - Minicom: (01375) 652516

Our ref: LD/FOI 1416

Date: 1 October 2009

Enquiries to: Linda Dutton

Direct dial: 01375 652242

Email: ldutton@thurrock.gov.uk

Dear Ms Wileman

Re: Freedom of Information request number 1416

Thank you for your request dated 01/10/2009 for the following information:

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) for the following;

1) how many children were taken into local authority care on

interim care orders and emergency protection orders under the

catagory of emotional harm during the above period ? i do not wish

you to include any children for any other catagories of harm/abuse.

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

catagory being physical abuse.

3)Out of these children who were put into care for domestic

violence how many were returned to family or extended family ?

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

5)of the children put on full care orders how many were adopted

during these periods.

Section 10(1) of the Freedom of Information Act requires that we process your application within 20 working days of the date we received your request, therefore we will respond to you by 29/10/2009. If we are unable to meet this deadline we will inform you of this and the reasons why.

If the information is already available to you through the Council's publication scheme we will advise you of this. We will advise you whether we hold the information you have requested and if you are able to access it. In some cases where exclusions apply we will not be able to provide you with the information you have requested. If we are unable to provide the information you request we will contact you and inform you of the reasons why. In some cases there may be a charge for the information you have requested. We will keep charges to a minimum and will inform you as soon as possible of any charges that apply.

If you are unhappy with the Council's response you can make a complaint via the Council's complaints procedures and this will be looked into. If you are not happy with this decision you may then appeal to the Information Commissioner.

Yours faithfully

Linda Dutton

Freedom of Information Coordinator

Telephone (01375) 652242

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