looked after children

FI 09 342

I wish to acknowledge receipt of your request for information.
I have asked the relevant officers of the Authority to commence enquiries
immediately to find all applicable information relating to your request
under the FOI Act and to supply any which is found to me.

Your request has to be processed within a maximum of 20 working days,
which means the Council must provide you with the information it has
(assuming no exemptions are claimed) by 29 October 2009. If it is possible
to provide you with the information within a shorter timescale then that
will be done.
Should you have any queries about this matter please don’t hesitate to
contact me.

Kind regards
FOI Officer

Angela Wileman
<[FOI #19118 email]> To: FOI requests at Redcar &
Cleveland Council
01/10/2009 01:36 <[Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council request email]>
cc:
Subject: Freedom of Information
request - looked after children

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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Ref: FI 09 342

Further to my acknowledgement of your request, I have received some
information from the relevant officers within the authority and I am now
in a position to respond to your request. I can confirm we do hold the
information requested. Officers have been able to supply information going
back 5 years within the **450 cost limit which is imposed by Section 12 of
the FOI Act.

This has involved a manual trawl of files to check the category of abuse
in the first instance. This has required getting files from archive and
undertaking a manual exercise which is why this request has been limited
to the last 5 years.

You asked:
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.
2004, 2005,2006 and 2007 - 0 children met the category of emotional harm
2008 - 1 child subject to an emergency protection order for emotional
harm.
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.
The one case in 2008 was a case where domestic abuse was an issue.
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?
In this particular case, there was an Emergency Protection Order followed
by an Interim Care Order.
The child was returned to mother ( perpetrator removed ) with no order in
place.

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

I hope that this satisfies your request for information. If you are not
satisfied with how your request has been dealt with then you are free to
make a complaint either to the Council or to the Information Commissioner.
You will find details of the complaints procedure on the Council's Website
at
http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/YrCou...
(alternatively by using the A-Z Index from the home page). The Information
Commissioner is an independent person who has responsibility for
overseeing the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act
2000. More details can be obtained from the Information Commissioner***s
website at [1]www.ico.gov.uk .

Should you have any queries about this matter please don***t hesitate to
contact me.

FOI Officer

Angela Wileman
<[FOI #19118 email]> To: FOI requests at Redcar &
Cleveland Council
01/10/2009 01:36 <[Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council request email]>
cc:
Subject: Freedom of Information
request - looked after children

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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