Dear Ms Moore

Your request for information

I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which was received on 15 June 2010. Attached is the formal response of Hampshire County Council (Notice of Determination) from which you will learn that we have responded to your request in full

You requested:

Dear Test Valley Borough Council, I would like to know how many children have been forcibly adopted (without parental consent) since the November 2006.

This request was passed to us and subsequently clarified to:

I would like the information for Test Valley, I will send a FOI request separately to Hampshire County Council. To the second question you ask, I would like the details to ALL children from that area and or are adopted there. Yes I have been reading the press articles and I am referring to ALL children under eighteen years of age. And I realise that all children are already in the care system first before a placement order is sought for, for a subsequent adoption.

Between the dates of 01 November 2006 and 31 March 2010 there were 5 adoptions of Children in Care from the Test Valley Borough Council area. We can not identify the number of adoptions that were without parental consent as, at the time of the adoption, the County Council had parental responsibility for these children.

I trust this information is useful to you. The attached Notice of Determination outlines the review process if you are unhappy with the response or how your request has been handled.

Yours sincerely

Barbara Sorkin

Barbara Sorkin
Data Protection & Quality Adviser

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