Fostering Service
Dear Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council,
Please could you provide the following information on your Fostering Service.
Definitions: for these purposes Kinship is the term referred to for any Friends and Family carers or Connected Persons.
1. In House fostering Capacity as of the 01/01/14
A. Total number of fostering households excluding Link, Kinship and respite only carers.
B. Total number of placements that A are approved for.
C. Total number of current placements within A.
2. Kinship numbers as of the 01/01/14
A. Total number of kinship carers households with full approval.
B. Total number with reg24 approval.
C. Does your local authority offer Family Group Conferences?
D. Is there a separate kinship fostering team or equivalent in operation?
3. Fostering Panel
A. Total number of terminations of approval in 2012/13.
B. Total number of terminations of approval in the financial year to date.
C. Total number of new approvals in 2012/13 excluding respite only, link and kinship.
D. Total number of new approvals in the financial year to date excluding respite only, link and kinship.
E. Total number of annual reviews presented to panel in the financial year to date.
F. Total number of changes of approvals presented to panel in the financial year to date.
4. Foster carer annual reviews
A. Total number of annual reviews completed outside of panel in 2012/13.
B. Total number of annual reviews completed outside of panel in the financial year to date.
C. Who chairs the reviews outside of panel: team manager, independent reviewing officer, supervising social worker, nobody, other (please state title).
D. Total number of reviews overdue.
5. Named individuals
A. Names of Agency Decision Makers.
B. Names and contact details of Head of Fostering or the Service Manager responsible for fostering.
C. Name and contact details of B's line manager.
Yours faithfully,
Miss S Mitchell
FOI request - Ref FOI/14/0189
I wish to acknowledge receipt of your attached request for information.
I have asked the relevant officers of the Authority to commence enquiries immediately to find all applicable information relating to your request under the FOI Act and to supply any which is found to me.
Your request has to be processed within a maximum of 20 working days, which means the Council must provide you with the information it has (assuming no exemptions are claimed) by 21/03/2014. If it is possible to provide you with the information within a shorter timescale then that will be done.
Should you have any queries about this matter please don’t hesitate to contact me.
Kind Regards
FOI Officer
Please find attached our response to your FOI request
Neil Blackett
Complaints Officer
People Services
Seafield House
Kirkleatham Street
Redcar
01642 771528
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