Parents deemed to lack capacity

The request was refused by Ministry of Justice.

Dear Ministry of Justice,

From 2006 to 2009, 588 parents were deemed to lack the mental capacity to care for their children, and the children were removed from the parents.

(1) How many children were involved?

(2) How many of these children have since (a) been kept in foster care permanently, and (b) how many of these children were adopted out?

(3) Please confirm that these cases were handled by the Official Solicitor.

(4) If not handled by the Official Solicitor, please advise which authority acted as deputy or guardian in these cases.

A breakdown of figures by year would be appreciated if it is possible, please.

(5) Please advise how many parents were deemed to lack the mental capacity to care for their children, and therefore they were removed from the parents from 2009 to 2018, please?

For (5), will you also please supply information as in (1) to (4) above?

A breakdown of figures by year would be appreciated if it is possible, please.

Yours faithfully,

Jean James

Lendrum, Oliver, Ministry of Justice

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Dear Ms James

 

Please find attached the Ministry of Justice’s response to your FOI
request of 1 December, which I am sending on my colleague Philippa
Mullins’ behalf. Please send any further correspondence about this case to
the MoJ Disclosure Team using the contact details provided in the letter.

 

Kind regards,

 

Oliver Lendrum

 

 

[1]Ministry of Oliver Lendrum
Justice
Family Justice Policy – Public Law

Family & Criminal Justice Policy Directorate

Justice Policy, Strategy and Communications Group

3^rd Floor (3.23), 102 Petty France, London, SW1H 9AJ
[2]Protecting and advancing the principles of justice

 

 

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Dear Lendrum, Oliver,

From 2006 to 2009, 588 parents were deemed to lack the mental capacity to care for their children, and the children were removed from the parents.

Please indicate how many of these cases were handled by the Official Solicitor.

Thank you..

Yours sincerely,

Jean James

Mullins, Philippa, Ministry of Justice

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Dear Ms James,

Please find attached, in receipt of your email of the 31 Dec.

Kind regards,

Pippa

Pippa Mullins
Family Justice Policy – Public Law
Family & Criminal Justice Directorate
Justice and Courts Policy Group
3rd Floor (3.23), 102 Petty France, London, SW1H 9AJ
Phone: 07840 014082

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Lendrum, Oliver, Ministry of Justice

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Dear Ms James

 

Please find attached our response to your Freedom of Information (FOI)
requests submitted to the Ministry of Justice on 31 December 2018. We have
aggregated these requests as permitted by the FOI Act, but have sent the
response to them to each of the ten email addresses from which they were
received.

 

Please direct any further correspondence on this matter to:
[1][MoJ request email]

 

Yours sincerely

 

Oliver Lendrum

 

 

[2]Ministry of Oliver Lendrum
Justice
Family Justice Policy – Public Law

Family & Criminal Justice Policy Directorate

Justice Policy, Strategy and Communications Group

3^rd Floor (3.23), 102 Petty France, London, SW1H 9AJ
[3]Protecting and advancing the principles of justice

 

 

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Dear Ministry of Justice,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Ministry of Justice's handling of my FOI request 'Parents deemed to lack capacity'.

[ [I submitted ten separate requests for information. It is an extremely corrupt act for Oliver Lendrum to group them together as one request and deny me answers on the basis of it involving too much time. People are getting tired of officials abusing the system. I am entitled to answers for each of my requests without FOI officers abusing the system.

What is it about this request that the Ministry of Justice wishes to hide from the public? ] ]

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...

Yours faithfully,

Jean James

Sull, Kieran, Ministry of Justice

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Dear Ms James

 

Please find attached the outcome of your Internal Review request dated 29
January regarding your FOI requests (MoJ ref 181231004).

 

Many thanks

 

[1]Ministry of Justice Kieran Sull

Policy Officer

Private Family Law Reform

[mobile number]

Find out more on [2]People Finder

Follow us on Twitter [3]@MoJGovUK
[4]Protecting and advancing the principles of justice

 

 

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