Thank you for contacting the Department for Education. We can confirm that
we have received the Freedom of Information request you submitted.

We will respond to you within 20 working days.

Dear Rachael Turquand,

Thank you for your request for information, which was received on 14
January 2018.  Your request has been allocated the reference number
2018-0002936.  You requested:

“1.) The number of children in social care in the Worcestershire area
between 2012 - 2017

“2.) The number of children that have been adopted from the Worcestershire
area between 2012-2017

“3.) The number of children from Worcestershire that have left the social
care system between 2012-2017

“4.) The number of foster children currently in the Worcestershire area
today compared to that of five years ago (2012)

“5.) The leading age range of children that are enrolled into the care
system?”

The requested information is given in the attached document.

Further local authority level information can be found in the statistical
release Children looked after in England including adoption: 2016 to 2017
at
[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics...
I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by copyright.
You are free to use it for your own purposes, including for private study
and non-commercial research, and for any other purpose authorised by an
exception in current copyright law.  Documents (except photographs) can be
also used in the UK without requiring permission for the purposes of news
reporting.  Any other re-use, for example commercial publication, would
require the permission of the copyright holder.

Most documents produced by a government department or agency will be
protected by Crown Copyright.  Most Crown copyright information can be
re-used under the Open Government Licence
([2]http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/o...).  For
information about the OGL and about re-using Crown Copyright information
please see The National Archives website
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If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me.  Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

If you are unhappy with the way your request has been handled, you should
make a complaint to the Department by writing to me within two calendar
months of the date of this letter.  Your complaint will be considered by
an independent review panel, who were not involved in the original
consideration of your request.

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint to the
Department, you may then contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Yours sincerely,

Andy Brook, Data Insight and Statistics Division, 01325 340452

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