Supervised contact

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Dear Devon County Council,

Please could you provide me with the following information regarding supervised contact within your area;

1. What are your current arrangements regarding supervised contact including current contracted provider(s) of any commissioned supervised contact services and contract length?
2. Do you spot contract?
3. What is the current hourly rate paid for supervised contact for these agencies?
4. What is the councils current spend on external agencies for contact services?
5. How does current contact arrangements meet statutory requirements? Is this facilitated within the current remit of a qualified social worker or what other plans are put into action to provide statutory supervised contact?
6. What is the name of the procurement and placements officer responsible for this service?

Thank you in advance for your cooperation

Yours faithfully,

Kirsty Leanne

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Dear Ms Leanne,

We acknowledge receipt of your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I am writing to ask you to clarify your request. This is because we need further details from you in order to identify and locate the information.

Therefore, I should be grateful if you would please clarify what is meant by 'supervised contact' as this is not a term with which we are familiar. It would be helpful if you could be as specific as possible

Please note that your request will be placed on hold until we receive the above clarification.

Yours sincerely

Jenny Goodall
Information Governance Officer
Customer Relations & Information Governance Team
Devon County Council
Room 120, County Hall
Topsham Road
Exeter, EX2 4QD
T: 01392 383000 (ask for Jenny Goodall)

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Dear access to information secure - mailbox,

Thank you for your swift reply.
I am requesting information regarding supervised contact between a child/young person and a another. This maybe in terms of contact between siblings, between a parent and child or a child/young person and another family member; all contact that is currently supervised by yourselves.

I look forward to your next reply.
Thank you

Yours sincerely,

Kirsty Leanne

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Dear Kirsty,

Freedom of Information Act 2000
Reference – IR4951997

Thank you for providing the necessary clarification to enable us to proceed with your request for information, which will be handled in accordance with your rights under the above legislation. Your request has been passed to the Information Governance team to deal with in accordance with the Council’s Environmental Information Regulations and Freedom of Information Request Handling Policy.

Under the above legislation, you are entitled to be informed as to whether or not Devon County Council holds the information you have requested, and if so to have this communicated to you within 20 working days. At times the Council may have to withhold certain information because an exemption from disclosure applies. If we feel that this should apply to any of the information you have requested, we will inform you of this fact (unless to do so would reveal information that would otherwise be exempt). We will also give you details of how you may appeal our decision.

The Council will endeavour to provide you with a response to your request as soon as possible but incidentally by no later than 4 August 2016.

I hope this information is of assistance to you.

Yours sincerely

Jenny Goodall
Information Governance Officer
Customer Relations & Information Governance Team
Devon County Council
Room 120, County Hall
Topsham Road
Exeter, EX2 4QD
T: 01392 383000 (ask for Jenny Goodall)

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Dear Ms Leanne

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000

Information Request: 4951997

 

I write further to your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act received on 06 July 2016.  In reply please find Devon
County Council's response attached.

I hope this information is of assistance to you.

Yours sincerely

Rebecca Eden
Information Governance Support Officer

Customer Relations and Information Governance Team
Devon County Council
Room 120
County Hall
Topsham Road
Exeter
EX2 4QD
T: 01392 383000 – ask for Rebecca Eden

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