Child Protection Statistics

Dear A Dignan

RE: Request for Information under The Freedom of Information Act 2000

I acknowledge with thanks your request for information in relation to Child Protection. This request has been considered as a request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your request may take up to 20 working days to be processed, and has been passed onto an appropriate officer.

Please be advised that if an exemption applies to the information that you have requested, the statutory period may be exceeded in accordance with the provisions of that Act.

Should you have any queries, please contact me on the number below.

Yours Sincerely

Jacqui
Legal BSU
Civic Centre
West Street
Oldham
OL1 1UL
Tel Ex. 8970/4832
Fax. 770 3701
e-mail [email address]

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FAO A Dignan

Further to your Freedom of Information request below in order that your request can be progressed fully, can I ask for clarification with regards to Q12 - does this relate to just children's services social workers?

Regards

Steve Hankinson
Information Governance Officer
People Communities & Society
Oldham Council
Unit 1 Whitney Court
Southlink
Oldham OL4 1DB
Tel: (0161) 770 8147
[mobile number]
Fax: (0161) 770 8192
[email address]

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A Dignan

Further to the Freedom of Information request below, here's our response:

Calendar Year
2006 2007 2008 2009

s47 Investigations 203 319 353 470
- Number of children
these were in respect of 189 301 326 410

Initial Child Protection
Conferences 187 249 284 320
- Number of children
these were in respect of 171 242 280 318

CP Plans formulated 136 173 260 316
- Emotional Abuse 17 35 53 74
- Sexual Abuse 11 * 14 *
- Neglect 38 65 107 91
- Physical Abuse 7 22 19 25
- Multiple 63 51 67 126

Core Assessments 423 492 563 643

Proportion of Core
Assessments to children
subject to a CPP 32.2% 35.2% 46.2% 49.1%

Applications for Interim
Emergency Protection
Orders * 6 13

Applications for Interim
Care Orders 20 26 42 35

Applications for Care
Orders * * 12 14

Total Number of LAC (year
end snapshot figures) 378 380 320 339

Proportion of LAC in
foster placements agency
placed (year end snapshot
figures) 64 (16.9%) 84 (22.1%) 50 (15.6%) 61 (18.0%)
Proportion of LAC in
foster placements in house
foster placed (year end
snapshot figures) 122 (32.3%) 118 (31.1%) 125 (39.1%) 133 (39.2%)

Children adopted 19 19 25 26

Proportion of children >8
attended LAC review 64.5% 62.4% 60.0% 62.6%

* 5 or less

For questions 12 and 14 our response is:

12. The number of qualified Social Workers either on a permanent
or contracted basis on average for each year in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009

2006 = 68

2007 = 68

2008 = 84

2009 = 91

14. The vacancy rate for qualified Social Workers in Children's Services
in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009

Unfortunately, Oldham Council does not hold this information as we unable
to extract anything other than current data, as at today's date from the
system. There is no way of reliably tracking vacancies that have occurred
in the past.

Please let me know if you need any further information.

Dave Nixon

Information Analyst

People, Communities and Society

Oldham Council

West Street

Oldham

OL1 1UT

Tel: 0161 770 3258

[mobile number]

email: [1][email address]

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FAO A Dignan

Further to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and
David's response below, please note that under the Act, Oldham Council has
a duty to supply any information on request, unless there is an exemption.
It is the Council's policy only to apply the exemptions where there is a
genuine risk of harm or prejudice. In such cases, we will still provide
information if it is in the public interest to do so.

Certain specific categories (marked * as numbering 5 or less) are exempt
from disclosure under Freedom of Information 2000 Section 40, Personal
data. This exemption allows the withholding of personal data if the data
protection principles would be breached by its disclosure. Data protection
principle 1 requires that personal data is processed lawfully and fairly.
In order to be `lawful' a condition must be met from schedule 2 of the
Data Protection Act 1998 and although your request evidences a legitimate
interest in requesting the data, this request cannot be fulfilled without
prejudice to the individuals rights and freedoms, in particular their
right to privacy and hence a condition in schedule 2 cannot be met.
Consequently, as Principle 1 of the Data Protection Act 1998 cannot be
met, the exemption under Freedom of Information Act 2000 is engaged.

If you disagree with the exemption applied to this information, you may
appeal to :

Paul Entwistle

Borough Solicitor

OMBC, PO Box 33,

Civic Centre, West Street,

Oldham OL1 1UL

Tel 0161 770 4822 Fax: 0161 770 5185

Email: [1][email address]

Should you further disagree with the decision following the appeal you may
wish to contact the Office of the Information Commissioner :

Office of the Information Commissioner

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

[2]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Tel: 0303 123 1113 Fax: 01625 524510

Should you have any queries, please contact me on the number above.

Steve Hankinson
Information Governance Officer
People Communities & Society
Oldham Council
Unit 1 Whitney Court
Southlink
Oldham OL4 1DB
Tel: (0161) 770 8147
[mobile number]
Fax: (0161) 770 8192
[3][email address]

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