Disabled Children &/Carers with No Help from Social Services

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Dear Nottinghamshire County Council,

Please send any/all recorded information you have on

1. How many disabled children are registered
with your Childrens' Services Dept

and

2. How many of those disabled children
and / their carers *do not* have care plans?

3. How many carers are registered disabled/in receipt of disability
benefit/ reported as suffering from depression and or any other
psychological problems

4. How are care-plans implemented and overseen by social workers
for disabled children and their carers/families?

Yours sincerely

Elizabeth R

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Dear Elizabeth

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I acknowledge your request for information received on 13th March 2010.

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Yours sincerely

Glynn Barker
County Contact
Nottinghamshire County Contact

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Dear Elizabeth

I am writing to you in reply to your Freedom of Information Act request. I
am able to provide the following information:

1. How many disabled children are registered with your Childrens' Services
Dept

There are 790 disabled children who are known (***registered***) to
Children***s Social Care and Health services. There are 824 disabled
children attending Nottinghamshire special schools and 1,214 pupils who
have a special educational needs statement.

2. How many of those disabled children and / their carers *do not* have
care plans?

403 of the 790 disabled children known to social care services do not have
a ***care*** plan. These are disabled children who are currently going
through an assessment and who will not yet have had a plan drawn up and
also children who are open to children***s social care Occupational
therapy (OT) services and who have had OT assessments which recommend
specialist OT services being provided.

3. How many carers are registered disabled/in receipt of disability
benefit/ reported as suffering from depression and or any other
psychological problems

In terms of numbers of parents of disabled children who also have a
disability, of the families known to children***s social care, 27 have a
recorded disability.

4. How are care-plans implemented and overseen by social workers
for disabled children and their carers/families?

Social workers work with families to implement the child***s ***care
***plan and the plans are reviewed at regular intervals according to the
nature of the case. Occupational Therapists will also set OT review dates
according to the needs / age of the child.

If you have any further enquiries regarding this matter please do not
hesitate to contact me.

Further information about your rights is available from the Information
Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Regards

John Allison
Children and Young Peoples Services
Nottinghamshire County Council
Tel 0115 977 4850
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