Foster Care in Falkrik

Response to this request is long overdue. By law, under all circumstances, Falkirk Council should have responded by now (details). You can complain by requesting an internal review.

Dear Falkirk Council,
1. 'In the financial year 2020/21 what was the outturn in millions of pounds for provided foster care?.'
2. 'In the financial year 2020/21 what was the outturn in millions of pounds for purchased foster care?'
3. 'In the financial year 2020/21 what was the outturn in millions of pounds for provided children's care in residential homes.
4. 'In the financial year 2020/21 what was the outturn in millions of pounds for purchased children's care in residential homes.
5. 'In the financial year 2020/21 what was the total number of looked after children in Falkirk local authority? 
6. 'In the financial year 2020/21 what was the total number of looked after children in provided foster care?.'
7. 'In the financial year 2020/21 what was the total number of looked after children in purchased foster care?'
8. 'In the financial year 2020/21 what was the  total number of looked after children in provided children's care in residential homes.
9. 'In the financial year 2020/21 what was the  total number of looked after children in purchased children's care in residential homes.
10. How many looked after children have residing in placements outside Falkirk  between August 2019 to August 2021.
11. What is the total number of fostering households in Falkirk local authority for each of the last 10 years.
12. What was the last financial year that the child's allowance was increased? What was it increased from and to?
13. What was the last financial year that the fostering fee was increased? What was it increased from and to?
14. When was the annual leave allowance last changed? What was it changed from and to?
15. What are the names of the purchased providers of foster care?

Yours faithfully,

Naomi Hodges

FOI, Falkirk Council

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Good afternoon,

 

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

 

We acknowledge receipt of your information request received 21 February
2022.  The Reference Number for this is 104220.

 

In terms of the relevant legislation, we have 20 working days to deal with
your request from the date that we received it. Where possible, we will
respond sooner. However, as you might expect, Covid-19 is still impacting
on our ability to respond to requests. This may be because staff are
working from home and are therefore unable to carry out full searches for
information or because staff are working on delivering essential
front-line services.

 

Please therefore bear with us. If you are able to narrow the scope of your
request, that would be very helpful and may mean we can respond to you
more quickly.

 

If you would like to know how we treat your personal information, you can
read more on the Council’s privacy webpage -
[1]https://www.falkirk.gov.uk/privacy/.

 

On behalf of Falkirk Council

Sharon

Information Team

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Falkirk Council,

This request is now long overdue - when can we request a response?

Yours sincerely,

Naomi Hodges

FOI, Falkirk Council

Good afternoon

Thank you for your email, apologies that it remains unanswered. I have passed on your email to the services responsible for answering and asked that they make contact as soon as possible with an update.

Kind regards

Lynn
Information Team

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Dear Lynn,

This FOI is now many months overdue and long past your statutory time frame in which to reply. When can we expect a response?

Yours sincerely,

Naomi Hodges

Dear Falkirk Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Falkirk Council's handling of my FOI request 'Foster Care in Falkrik'.

In February 2022 we requested some basic information from you regarding foster care in Falkirk. You can say that, by law, under all circumstances, the authority should have responded by now . I request an internal review of why this has not happened.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/f...

Yours faithfully,

Naomi Hodges

FOI, Falkirk Council

Dear Naomi,

 

Thank you for your email, apologies that your request remains unanswered.

 

I can see that you have also sent a further email requesting an internal
review of the handling of your FOI request 'Foster Care in Falkirk'.

 

I will action this now and send you a separate review acknowledgement.

 

Kind regards

 

Sharon

Information Team

 

 

 

 

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FOI, Falkirk Council

Dear Naomi

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
S.21(5) Review Notice

We acknowledge receipt of your request for review received on 08/08/22. The Reference Number for this is 104220.

We have 20 working days to deal with your request from the date that we received it but we will respond earlier where possible.

On behalf of Falkirk Council
Sharon
Information Team

Your privacy is important to us. You can find out how we deal with your personal information here.

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complaintsofficer sw, Falkirk Council

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Dear Ms Hodges,

 

Please find attached a response to your request for a review of your FOI.
We sincerely apologise for the lateness in our response.

 

Regards,

Complaints SW Officer,

Children’s Services

 

 

Children’s Services

Sealock House

2 Inchyra Road

Grangemouth

FK3 9XB

 

Email: [1][email address]

 

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