Safeguarding of children in Wales

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Dear Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council,

Please treat this email as a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
1) For each financial quarter since April 2018, how many children have died in your area in cases where abuse and/or neglect were suspected or confirmed?

If you cannot provide figures for this exact date range, please provide data for the closest available date range and state clearly the dates that it covers.

By quarter I am referring to the following:

2018-19 (Q1 = April to June, Q2 = July to September, Q3 = October to December, Q4 = January to March)

2019-20 (Q1 = April to June, Q2 = July to September, Q3 = October to December, Q4 = January to March)

2020-21 ((Q1 = April to June, Q2 = July to September (please include the date in September data is correct to)

2) Broken down by financial quarter, how many of the children in question 1 had been referred to the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub, or equivalent body for safeguarding children, prior to their death?

3) Broken down by financial quarter, how many of these children were in the care, or partial care of social services teams?

4) For your answer to question 1 above, for each financial quarter, please can you disclose how many were:
a) Babies (under 1 year old)
b) Toddlers/pre-school (between 1 and 4 years old)
c) Primary school age (4-11)
d) Secondary school age (11-18)

The next question is about referrals to your Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub or equivalent body for safeguarding children.
By “referral” I include those made officially by practitioners, teachers etc and any calls that may have been made via any publicly accessible helpline, website or online reporting form, whether anonymously or not.

5) For each quarter from April 2018 to September 2020, how many referrals were made about children to the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub or its equivalent?
If you cannot provide a figure for this exact date range, please provide data for the closest available date range and state clearly the dates that it covers

Please provide the data in an Excel spreadsheet, filetype .xls, .xlsx or .csv. Please do not use a pdf.

Yours faithfully,

BBC Shared Data Unit

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council

Dear Sir or Madam,

 

I acknowledge receipt of your Freedom of Information request and will
liaise with the relevant Department in order to provide a response.

 

We will endeavour to provide this information within 20 working days.

 

Yours faithfully

 

Information Governance Team / Tîm Llywodraethu Gwybodaeth

 

H  Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council

       Legal Section, The General Offices, Steel Works Road, Ebbw
Vale, South Wales NP23 6DN

H   Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Blaenau Gwent

       Mae'r Adain Gyfreithiol, Y Swyddfeydd Cyffredinol, Heol Gwaith Dur,
Glyn Ebwy NP23 6DN

 

Mae’r Cyngor yn croesawu gohebiarth yn Gymraeg a saesneg a byddwn yn
cyfathrebu gyda chi yn eich dewis iaith, dim ond I chi rhoi gwybod I ni pa
un sydd well gennych. Ni fydd gohebu yn Gymraeg yn creu unrhyw oedi.

The Council welcomes correspondence in Welsh and English and we will
communicate with you in the language of your choice, as long as you let us
know which you prefer. Corresponding in Welsh will not lead to any delay.

 

If you are unhappy with the handling of your request, you can ask us to
review our response. Requests for reviews should be submitted within 40
days of the date of receipt of our response to your original request –
email: [1][Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council request email].

If you are unhappy with the outcome of our review, you can write to the
Information Commissioner, who can be contacted at:

 

Information Commissioner’s Office - Wales

2^nd Floor Churchill House

Churchill Way

Cardiff

CF10 2HH

Telephone: 0330 414 6421

Email: [2][email address]

 

 

 

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BBC Shared Data Unit

Good afternoon,

I forgot to enclose my name. Apologies for that.

It's Daniel Wainwright.

BBC Shared Data Unit

BGCBC - FOI Requests, Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council

Dear Daniel Wainwright,

 

In response to your Freedom of Information request, please see the
Officer's response below.

 

1)    For each financial quarter since April 2018, how many children have
died in your area in cases where abuse and/or neglect were suspected or
confirmed?

 

0

 

If you cannot provide figures for this exact date range, please provide
data for the closest available date range and state clearly the dates that
it covers.

 

 

By quarter I am referring to the following:

 

2018-19 (Q1 = April to June, Q2 = July to September, Q3 = October to
December, Q4 = January to March)

2019-20  (Q1 = April to June, Q2 = July to September, Q3 = October to
December, Q4 = January to March)

2020-21 ((Q1 = April to June, Q2 = July to September (please include the
date in September data is correct to)

 

N/A

 

2) Broken down by financial quarter, how many of the children in question
1 had been referred to the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub, or equivalent
body for safeguarding children, prior to their death? 

 

N/A

 

3) Broken down by financial quarter,  how many of these children were in
the care, or partial care of social services teams?

 

N/A

 

4)    For your answer to question 1 above, for each financial quarter,
please can you disclose how many were:

 

a)     Babies (under 1 year old)

 

b)    Toddlers/pre-school (between 1 and 4 years old)

 

c)     Primary school age (4-11)

 

d)    Secondary school age (11-18)

 

N/A

 

The next question is about referrals to your Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub
or equivalent body for safeguarding children.

 

By “referral” I include those made officially by practitioners, teachers
etc and any calls that may have been made via any publicly accessible
helpline, website or online reporting form, whether anonymously or not.

 

 

5)   For each quarter from April 2018 to September 2020, how many
referrals were made about children to the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub or
its equivalent?

 

If you cannot provide a figure for this exact date range, please provide
data for the closest available date range and state clearly the dates that
it covers

 

1

 

 

I trust this answers your request and if you have any queries please don't
hesitate to contact us.

 

Kind regards,

 

Information Governance Team / Tîm Llywodraethu Gwybodaeth

 

H  Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council

       Legal Section, The General Offices, Steel Works Road, Ebbw
Vale, South Wales NP23 6DN

H   Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Blaenau Gwent

       Mae'r Adain Gyfreithiol, Y Swyddfeydd Cyffredinol, Heol Gwaith Dur,
Glyn Ebwy NP23 6DN

 

Mae’r Cyngor yn croesawu gohebiarth yn Gymraeg a saesneg a byddwn yn
cyfathrebu gyda chi yn eich dewis iaith, dim ond I chi rhoi gwybod I ni pa
un sydd well gennych. Ni fydd gohebu yn Gymraeg yn creu unrhyw oedi.

The Council welcomes correspondence in Welsh and English and we will
communicate with you in the language of your choice, as long as you let us
know which you prefer. Corresponding in Welsh will not lead to any delay.

 

If you are unhappy with the handling of your request, you can ask us to
review our response. Requests for reviews should be submitted within 40
days of the date of receipt of our response to your original request –
email: [1][Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council request email].

If you are unhappy with the outcome of our review, you can write to the
Information Commissioner, who can be contacted at:

 

Information Commissioner’s Office - Wales

2^nd Floor Churchill House

Churchill Way

Cardiff

CF10 2HH

Telephone: 0330 414 6421

Email: [2][email address]

 

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