Safeguarding of children

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BBC Shared Data Unit

Dear Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council,

Please treat this email as a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
1) For each financial quarter since April 2018, how many children have died in your area in cases where abuse and/or neglect were suspected or confirmed?

If you cannot provide figures for this exact date range, please provide data for the closest available date range and state clearly the dates that it covers.

By quarter I am referring to the following:

2018-19 (Q1 = April to June, Q2 = July to September, Q3 = October to December, Q4 = January to March)

2019-20 (Q1 = April to June, Q2 = July to September, Q3 = October to December, Q4 = January to March)

2020-21 ((Q1 = April to June, Q2 = July to September (please include the date in September data is correct to)

2) Broken down by financial quarter, how many of the children in question 1 had been referred to the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub, or equivalent body for safeguarding children, prior to their death?

3) Broken down by financial quarter, how many of these children were in the care, or partial care of social services teams?

4) For your answer to question 1 above, for each financial quarter, please can you disclose how many were:
a) Babies (under 1 year old)
b) Toddlers/pre-school (between 1 and 4 years old)
c) Primary school age (4-11)
d) Secondary school age (11-18)

The next question is about referrals to your Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub or equivalent body for safeguarding children.
By “referral” I include those made officially by practitioners, teachers etc and any calls that may have been made via any publicly accessible helpline, website or online reporting form, whether anonymously or not.

5) For each quarter from April 2018 to September 2020, how many referrals were made about children to the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub or its equivalent?
If you cannot provide a figure for this exact date range, please provide data for the closest available date range and state clearly the dates that it covers

Please provide the data in an Excel spreadsheet, filetype .xls, .xlsx or .csv. Please do not use a pdf.

Yours faithfully,

BBC Shared Data Unit

H&FInTouch: H&F, Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council

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BBC Shared Data Unit

Dear Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council,

Apologies, I should have provided that.

Happy to do so now.

Yours sincerely,

Daniel Wainwright

H and F In Touch, Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council

Our reference: 1829104
 
 
Dear Mr. Wainwright 
 
Thank you for your request for information that was received on 10
September 2020.  Your request has been summarised as follows:
 
1) For each financial quarter since April 2018, how many children have
died in your area in cases where abuse and/or neglect were suspected or
confirmed?

If you cannot provide figures for this exact date range, please provide
data for the closest available date range and state clearly the dates that
it covers.

By quarter I am referring to the following:

2018-19 (Q1 = April to June, Q2 = July to September, Q3 = October to
December, Q4 = January to March)

2019-20 (Q1 = April to June, Q2 = July to September, Q3 = October to
December, Q4 = January to March)

2020-21 ((Q1 = April to June, Q2 = July to September (please include the
date in September data is correct to)

2) Broken down by financial quarter, how many of the children in question
1 had been referred to the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub, or equivalent
body for safeguarding children, prior to their death?

3) Broken down by financial quarter, how many of these children were in
the care, or partial care of social services teams?

4) For your answer to question 1 above, for each financial quarter, please
can you disclose how many were:

a) Babies (under 1 year old)

b) Toddlers/pre-school (between 1 and 4 years old)

c) Primary school age (4-11)

d) Secondary school age (11-18)

The next question is about referrals to your Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub
or equivalent body for safeguarding children.

By "referral" I include those made officially by practitioners, teachers
etc and any calls that may have been made via any publicly accessible
helpline, website or online reporting form, whether anonymously or not.

5) For each quarter from April 2018 to September 2020, how many referrals
were made about children to the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub or its
equivalent?

If you cannot provide a figure for this exact date range, please provide
data for the closest available date range and state clearly the dates that
it covers
 
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Gary Clothier, Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council

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Our reference: 1829104
 
 
 
Dear Mr. Wainwright
 
Thank you for your request for information received on 10 September 2020.
I apologise for the delay.
 
Please find attached our response to your request.
 
Yours sincerely
 
 
Gary Clothier
Investigations and Information Officer
 
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