Placement sufficiency, particularly residential children's homes.

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Dear Bath and North East Somerset Council,

I am currently researching children's home capacity within England and I would appreciate the relevant officers answering the questions below so I can get a national picture for my report.

A. How many children or young people do you have in :
1. Care?
Of those, how many are living within:
2. Mainstream fostering
a. In-house
b. Other
5. Kinship
6. Children’s homes
a. In-house
b. Other
7. Supported accommodation
a. In-house
b. Other

B. LA operated children's homes
1. Does your LA operate its own children’s home/s excluding short breaks? Yes/no
2. How many homes?
3. How many beds in total are there for all the homes?

C. Provider operated children’s homes
1. Does your LA commission a provider to run homes for you? yes/no
2. How many homes?
3. How many beds in total are there for all the homes?
4. Name of the provider/s

D. LA operated Short Breaks home
1. Does your LA operate a Short Breaks children’s home? yes/no
2. How many homes?
3. How many beds in total are there for all the homes?

E. Provider operated Short Breaks homes
1. How many homes?
2. How many beds in total are there for all the homes?
3. Name of the provider/s

F. Plans for new homes
1. Are you planning to open any new homes? Yes/no
2. If so, how many new homes?
3. How many new beds in total?
4. What is the predicted opening date for each home?
5. Have you received executive/cabinet approval to proceed?
6. Did you receive grant funding?
7. From whom please?

G. Residential Children’s home placements as of the nearest date to 1st August 2024:
1. Home many children or young people (CYP) do you have living in residential children’s homes?
2. How many of these CYP do you have in LA operated (in-house) residential children’s homes?
3. How many CYP are in private, voluntary or health run children’s homes?
4. How many CYP are in Secure Children’s Homes?
5. How many children or young people in unregulated provision?

Yours faithfully,

nathan whitley

Dear Bath and North East Somerset Council,

Please can you let us know when we will receive a response to our request.

Yours faithfully,

Nathan Whitley

Dear Bath and North East Somerset Council,

Please can you update us on a response time please.

Yours faithfully,

Nathan Whitley

Dear Bath and North East Somerset Council,

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

I am writing to request an internal review of Bath and North East Somerset Council's handling of my FOI request 'Placement sufficiency, particularly residential children's homes.'.

I have sent two separate follow up emails without any acknowledgement or responses.

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,

Nathan Whitley

Information Governance, Bath and North East Somerset Council

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Dear Mr Whitley,

Please see enclosed response to your FOIA/EIR request, please accept our
sincere apologies for the delay in sending.

We note that you have recently requested an Internal Review. We assume
that this is no longer necessary as we have now responded in full to your
request.

However, if you are unhappy with the response to your request, you may ask
for an internal review within 40 working days of receipt of this response.
Please contact Jeff Wring - Director of Financial Services, Assurance &
Pensions, at Lewis House, Manvers St, Bath BA1 1JG or by email to:
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If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to appeal directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at Wycliffe House,
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Yours sincerely,

Information Governance Team
Bath & North East Somerset Council   
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Dear Information Governance,

Thank you for your response.

Yours sincerely,

Nathan Whitley