Looked after children under catagory of emotional harm

Dear Angela,

Thank you for your request for information relating to looked after
children. Your request was received on 1st October 2009 and I am dealing
with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and/or the
Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

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Dear Ms Wileman

I am responding to your request for information and to confirm that the
Council uses the standard government reporting categories to record when a
child becomes looked after. This does not include a category for emotional
harm. You will be aware that the government has set an appropriate limit
on requests for information. The Council has adopted this when considering
requests and this is where providing this information would cost in excess
of £450. This is based on one member of staff checking whether
information is held, locating, retrieving and extracting this. The only
way that the Council could check whether emotional harm was a feature
would be to check every child's file which would clearly take in excess of
this appropriate limit.

If you were to revise your request to a category that the government
specifies it may be possible to review your request again

Best wishes

Andrew Hutchinson
Strategy Support Manager
The Exchange
Tel (01254) 666445
[mobile number]

From: Angela Wileman [[1]mailto:[FOI #18828 email]]
Sent: 30 September 2009 21:29
To: Accesstoinformation
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Looked after children under
catagory of emotional harm

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) 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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