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Angela Wileman made this Freedom of Information request to Lincolnshire County Council

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From: Angela Wileman

30 September 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

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 without charging me) 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.

Yours faithfully,

Angela Wileman

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From: Infomgt
Lincolnshire County Council

1 October 2009

Dear Ms Wileman

Freedom of Information Reference: 08141FOI

Subject: Request for information regarding children taken into Local
Authority Care by Lincolnshire County Council between 1998 and 2008

Thank you for your recent request for information received by this office
on 1st October 2009. Your request is being dealt with under the terms of
the Freedom of formation Act 2000.

Your request will be handled by the Children's Services Directorate. We
will aim to respond to your request, notifying you whether or not the
information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council and
communicating that information to you (provided that the information is
not exempt under the terms of the Act), within 20 working days from the
day after your request was received.

We may reasonably require further information from you in order to
identify and locate the information requested. If this is the case we will
contact you in due course.

In some circumstances a fee may be payable and if that is the case, we
will let you know. A fees notice will be issued to you, and you will be
required to pay before we will proceed to deal with your request.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact us. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Department
Resources Directorate
Lincolnshire County Council

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From: Infomgt
Lincolnshire County Council

6 October 2009

Dear Ms Wileman

Freedom of Information Reference: 08141FOI

Subject: Request for information regarding children taken into Local
Authority Care by Lincolnshire County Council between 1998 and 2008

Further to previous correspondence in respect of the above matter, we have
now been advised by the Children's Services Directorate that they require
further clarification from you in order to help identify and accurately
locate the information you have requested. Consequently,we will not be
able to take this matter any further without obtaining the extra
information from you. The Children's Services Directorate wish to
know with regard to Question 1 of your request when you refer to Emergency
Protection Orders' do you mean 'Police Protection Orders'.

Your request will now be placed on hold. The 20 working days allowed for
us to respond to the request will resume from the date we receive further
clarification from you. Unless we receive additional clarification from
you within three months Lincolnshire County Council will consider this
matter closed.

If you have any queries or concerns regarding this email please do not
hesitate to contact us.

Yours sincerely,

Freedom of Information Department
Resources Directorate
Lincolnshire County Council

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From: Angela Wileman

10 October 2009

Dear Infomgt,

I am trying to get to grasp with the problem of domestic violence
as a whole.Please provide the information as requested for children
removed by police or social services. However if you could break
that figure down between police protection and emergency protection
orders i would be most grateful.

Yours sincerely,

Angela Wileman

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From: Infomgt
Lincolnshire County Council

29 October 2009

Dear Ms Wileman

Freedom of Information Reference: 08141FOI

Subject: Request for information regarding children taken into Local
Authority Care by Lincolnshire County Council between 1998 and 2008

Thank you for your recent request for information received by this office
on 1st October 2009. Lincolnshire County Council are able to provide you
with the following information.

1) how many children were taken into local authority care on interim care
orders and emergency protection orders under the category of emotional
harm during the above period ? I do not wish you to include any children
for any other categories of harm/abuse.

(SIX - Interim Care Orders)

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 category being
physical abuse.

(ONE)

3)Out of these children who were put into care for domestic violence how
many were returned to family or extended family?

(ONE)

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

(NONE)

5)of the children put on full care orders how many were adopted during
these periods. (NONE)

N.B. The recording of Emergency Protection Orders and Police Protection
Orders subsequent to an Interim Care Order is a work in progress within
the Local Authority and may explain the absence of any such records in the
above.

We believe that this answers your request in full.

Yours sincerely

Rachel Starmer
Resources Directorate
Lincolnshire County Council

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