Missing Episodes of Looked After Children
Dear Tendring District Council,
1) Please provide the number of children subject to Interim Care Order or Full Care Orders and/or legally classed as LAC that have been reported as 'missing' from their placement in the last 12 months.
2) Please provide the total number of times children subject to an interim care order or full care order and/or legally classed as LAC have been reported as 'missing' from their placement in the last 12 months.
3) Please provide your definition of 'missing' vs 'absent' from placement and whether you record data relating to the number of 'absent' episodes reported by persons responsible for children subject to an interim care order or full care order.
4) Please provide your internal policy/guidance/document on completing 'back to home' interviews which staff must follow for when a child has been reported as missing home but has now returned home.
Yours faithfully,
Alison Melville
Dear Alison,
In response to your FOI enquiry which was received on 08/03/2023, we would
refer you to Essex County Council as the authority responsible for the
information you have requested. Their contact details are as follows:
Essex County Council – [1]http://www.essex.gov.uk
[2]https://www.essex.gov.uk/request-informa...
We hope this is of assistance.
Further information about your rights is also available from the
Information Commissioner at: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe
House, Water Lane, Wilmslow SK9 5AF Telephone: 0303 123 1113,
[3]www.ico.gov.uk .
Kind regards,
Moustafa Neamatalla
On behalf of Corporate Information Manager
Corporate Services
Tendring District Council
Phone: 01255 686063
E-mail: [4][Tendring District Council request email]
[5]www.tendringdc.gov.uk
Tendring District Council, Town Hall, Station Road, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex
CO15 1SE
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