Children and Social Work Bill plans

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Dear Lincolnshire County Council,

According to the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families here https://twitter.com/IsabelleTrowler/stat... you have detailed plans of how you would work differently if clauses 29-33 of the Children and Social Work Bill became law and allowed you to do so. Please disclose your detailed plans.

Yours faithfully,

Allan Norman

FOI, Lincolnshire County Council

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Dear Allan Norman

 

Freedom of Information Reference: 35142565FOI

 

Subject: Request for information regarding children and social work bill
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Dear FOI,

A reminder of the law on replying promptly, as per the ICO at https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisatio...

"21. The obligation to respond promptly means that an authority should comply with a request as soon as is reasonably practicable.

22. Whilst this is linked to the obligation to respond within 20 working days, it should be treated as a separate requirement.

23. An authority will therefore need to both respond promptly and within 20 working days in order to comply with section 10(1).

24. Authorities should regard the 20 working day limit as a ‘long stop’, in other words the latest possible date on which they may issue a response.

25. It also follows that an authority which provides its response close to, or on, the final day of the 20 working day limit ought to be able to both account for, and justify, the length of time taken to comply with the request."

You will be very aware that this is an issue of current significance. If you intend to delay until close to, or on the final day, I additionally require you to account for and justify the length of time taken.

Yours sincerely,

Allan Norman

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1^st November 2016

 

Dear Allan Norman

 

Freedom of Information Reference:  35142565FOI

 

Subject: Request for information.

 

Please find our response to your request below:

 

Request

 

According to the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families here
[4]https://twitter.com/IsabelleTrowler/stat... you have
detailed plans of how you would work differently if clauses 29-33 of the
Children and Social Work Bill became law and allowed you to do so. Please
disclose your detailed plans.

 

Response

 

Please find attached the Partners in Practice report that went to Children
and Young People Scrutiny Committee on 9 September.

 

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Fiona Nicholson left an annotation ()

Interesting, just looking at the rest of the meeting now
http://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/ieLi...

Fiona Nicholson left an annotation ()

Is this rate of increase in family and friends caring for children (SGO and Reg 24) comparable in other areas?
Page 16
2011/12
2012/13
2013/14
2014/15
2015/16
Out of County Residential Placements 12, 12, 13, 20, 19
Out of County Fostering Placements 4, 12, 18, 28, 37
Foster Placements 360, 387, 376, 380, 373
Regulation 24 Placements 38, 28, 71, 93, 104
Special Guardianship Order Placements 62, 92, 139, 175, 275

http://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/docu... via
http://lincolnshire.moderngov.co.uk/ieLi...
16 page budget report showing where the council anticipates cuts can be made to children's services because of reduction in central Government funding

(+ in passing noted elsewhere in budget appendix, no UASC in Lincs)