[email address]

Dear Ms Fell

Application for Information from the Council - Reference Number 762646

The application that was received by the Council on 23 December 2009 and amendment to the request received 29 December 2009 has now been considered and this letter is a full response to that application.

Please note that the information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your own purposes, including any non commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other reuse such as commercial publication would require the permission of the Council.

If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled you may ask for an internal review to take place.

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

Mairead MacNeil

Assistant Director of Children's Social Care

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Services for Children and Young People

Freedom of Information Request

Please find Plymouth City Council's response to: 762646 Dated: 23 December 2009

Q1. Total actual number of children within your local area as of 31 March 2009?

A1. The mid 2008 Office of National Statistics data estimates the number of Children aged 0-17 years within Plymouth as 50,165.

Q2. Of that total number of children, how many of that total had a CPR3 category B Child Protection plan on 31 March 2009?

A2. The number of children and young people who had a child protection plan, as at 31st March 2009 was 189.

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]

www.plymouth.gov.uk