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Hello,
I hope whoever is reading this is keeping well.
I am writing in connection to the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please could you endeavour to answer the following questions within 20 working days, as specified under its clauses:
Please can you break down the below information for the following calendar years: 2019 and 2020. Can you also please provide me the information for the period between 1 January 2021 and 28 February 2021.
Q1) Over the stated period, on how many separate occasions did a member of the public contact your council to inform you they suspected that a child was living in a private fostering arrangement (that hadn't been reported)? In order to report such a suspected private fostering arrangement, people are often directed to a council's children safeguarding board/children's services team (or similar) or encouraged to fill out a form (such as via a Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub) on the local authority's website. Please can you break down Q1 in terms of what type of person reported the private fostering arrangement (for example, but not limited to: school/teacher, neighbour)
1a) How many of the children living under such private fostering arrangements were found to have a disability (please specify what kind- such as autism, down syndrome- if that information, indeed, is recorded and retrievable under the constraints of the act)
1b) Following the subsequent completion of the Private Fostering Assessment (or similarly titled) form, how many placements were found to be prohibited?
1c) How many of the private foster carers had convictions recorded on their DBS disclosure form? Could you please breakdown all the above information in a table and on a case to case basis over the requested period.
I would like to receive this information in an electronic format. If you feel that a substantive response to this request is not possible within a reasonable time frame, or the request is too broad, I would be grateful if you could please contact me by email ([email address]) and provide assistance as to how I could refine the request.

Yours faithfully,
Yohannes Lowe

MCC - Freedom of Information, Monmouthshire County Council

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Hi Yohannes,

I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
We hope you can accept our sincere apologies for the delay in
responding and any inconvenience this may have caused. We thank you
for your patience during this period.

In March 2021 you asked:

Please can you break down the below information for the following
calendar years:  2019 and 2020. Can you also please provide me the
information for the period between 1 January 2021 and 28 February
2021.

Q1) Over the stated period, on how many separate occasions did a
member of the public contact your council to inform you they
suspected that a child was living in a private fostering arrangement
(that hadn't been reported)? In order to report such a suspected
private fostering arrangement, people are often directed to a
council's children safeguarding board/children's services team (or
similar) or encouraged to fill out a form (such as via a
Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub) on the local authority's website.
Please can you break down Q1 in terms of what type of person
reported the private fostering arrangement (for example, but not
limited to: school/teacher, neighbour)

1a) How many of the children living under such private fostering
arrangements were found to have a disability (please specify what
kind- such as autism, down syndrome- if that information, indeed, is
  recorded and retrievable under the constraints of the act)  

1b) Following the subsequent completion of the Private Fostering
Assessment (or similarly titled) form, how many placements were
found to be prohibited? 

1c) How many of the private foster carers had convictions recorded
on their DBS disclosure form? Could you please breakdown all the
above information in a table and on a case to case basis over the
requested period.

 

During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown period a
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This included our Freedom of Information team and those who provide
the responses from the service areas. This has resulted in a large
backlog of requests, however we are now working to recover this and
get up to date.

We wondered if you still wanted this information. If you do can you
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Hi Yohannes,

I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

In March 2021 you asked:

Please can you break down the below information for the following
calendar years:  2019 and 2020. Can you also please provide me the
information for the period between 1 January 2021 and 28 February
2021.

Q1) Over the stated period, on how many separate occasions did a
member of the public contact your council to inform you they
suspected that a child was living in a private fostering arrangement
(that hadn't been reported)? In order to report such a suspected
private fostering arrangement, people are often directed to a
council's children safeguarding board/children's services team (or
similar) or encouraged to fill out a form (such as via a
Multi-agency Safeguarding Hub) on the local authority's website.
Please can you break down Q1 in terms of what type of person
reported the private fostering arrangement (for example, but not
limited to: school/teacher, neighbour)

1a) How many of the children living under such private fostering
arrangements were found to have a disability (please specify what
kind- such as autism, down syndrome- if that information, indeed, is
recorded and retrievable under the constraints of the act)

1b) Following the subsequent completion of the Private Fostering
  Assessment (or similarly titled) form, how many placements were  
found to be prohibited? 

1c) How many of the private foster carers had convictions recorded
on their DBS disclosure form? Could you please breakdown all the
above information in a table and on a case to case basis over the
requested period.

 

We haven't had a response to our email sent on 15th October asking
if you still wanted the information. If you would like a response
could you let us know by 15th November please? If we haven't heard
from you by then, we will assume you no longer require the
  information and will close the request unanswered.

 

With kind regards,

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Monmouthshire County Council

 

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I refer to your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 

During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown period a
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