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Dear Angela

Pease find below, the response to your request for 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.
It is not possible to answer the request as posed because we do not
take children into care with a category of emotional 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 category being
physical abuse.
We do not record information on domestic violence within the original
households of Looked After children in a way which can be reliably
extracted and analysed. In addition, it would be impossible to
distinguish between domestic violence between parents, domestic violence
between one parent and their partner, domestic violence between a parent
and a step-sibling etc.

3)Out of these children who were put into care for domestic violence
how many were returned to family or extended family?
It is not possible to answer this question because we cannot answer
questions 1 and 2.

4)Out of these how many children were put on full care orders?
It is not possible to answer this question because we cannot answer
questions 1 and 2.

5)of the children put on full care orders how many were adopted during
these periods.
It is not possible to answer the question as posed because we cannot
answer questions 1 and 2.

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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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