Number of Looked After Children placed with family members outside of the United Kingdom for each calendar year between 2018-2020

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Dear Ms Turrell

Please find the response to your FOI request below:

1. The total number of Looked After Children under your local authority
care, where family members outside the United Kingdom were explored* for
each calendar year between January 2018 and December 2020 inclusive.

2. The number of Looked After Children under your local authority care
that were placed outside the United Kingdom for each calendar year between
January 2018 and December 2020 inclusive.

3. The number and type of placement orders used for placing Looked After
Children from your local authority care with family members outside the
United Kingdom for each calendar year between January 2018 and December
2020 inclusive.

For the purposes of this request Looked After Children is defined as being
subject to

• Section 31 The Children Act 1989;

• Section 38 Children act 1989;

• Section 20 Children Act 1989.

*Please note that by ‘where family members outside the United Kingdom were
explored’, we mean where a family member of a Looked After Child under
your local authority care outside the United Kingdom was identified,
considered as a possible carer for the child, and steps to assess the
family member as a suitable carer for the child were considered. Please
include both:

• children where an assessment of a family member outside the UK was
considered but not actually carried out; and

• children where an assessment of a family member outside the UK was
carried out.

Please provide the information electronically. For ease and clarity,
please see the format provided below:

Question. 2018. 2019. 2020. Total.

1.           0        0            0            0

2.          0         0            0            0

3.         0          0            0            0

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Sian Hughes

Sian Hughes

Swyddog Cefnogi Cydymffurfiaeth a Chwynion / Compliance and Complaints
Support Officer

Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol / Social Services

Cyngor Sir Ynys Mon / Anglesey County Council

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