Fostering Service

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Dear Hackney Borough Council,

Please could you provide the following information on your Fostering Service.

Definitions: for these purposes Kinship is the term referred to for any Friends and Family carers or Connected Persons.

1. In House fostering Capacity as of the 01/01/14

A. Total number of fostering households excluding Link, Kinship and respite only carers.
B. Total number of placements that A are approved for.
C. Total number of current placements within A.

2. Kinship numbers as of the 01/01/14

A. Total number of kinship carers households with full approval.
B. Total number with reg24 approval.
C. Does your local authority offer Family Group Conferences?
D. Is there a separate kinship fostering team or equivalent in operation?

3. Fostering Panel

A. Total number of terminations of approval in 2012/13.
B. Total number of terminations of approval in the financial year to date.
C. Total number of new approvals in 2012/13 excluding respite only, link and kinship.
D. Total number of new approvals in the financial year to date excluding respite only, link and kinship.
E. Total number of annual reviews presented to panel in the financial year to date.
F. Total number of changes of approvals presented to panel in the financial year to date.

4. Foster carer annual reviews

A. Total number of annual reviews completed outside of panel in 2012/13.
B. Total number of annual reviews completed outside of panel in the financial year to date.
C. Who chairs the reviews outside of panel: team manager, independent reviewing officer, supervising social worker, nobody, other (please state title).
D. Total number of reviews overdue.

5. Named individuals

A. Names of Agency Decision Makers.
B. Names and contact details of Head of Fostering or the Service Manager responsible for fostering.
C. Name and contact details of B's line manager.

Yours faithfully,

Miss S Mitchell

Administrator, Hackney Borough Council

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Miss S Mitchell

Dear Administrator,

Please can you inform me when you will be responding to my FOI request as the deadline for the request was 24th February 2014.

Yours sincerely,

Miss S Mitchell

Hackney Contact Centre, Hackney Borough Council

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Paul Hickford, Hackney Borough Council

Dear Miss S Mitchell,
 
We apologise for the delay in our response to your FOI request. I have
been in touch with the business area collating the response and they hope
to have it completed tomorrow, but reassure us it is being worked on as we
speak, retracting the information from the relevant sources has taken
longer than originally calculated, and they apologise for any
inconvenience caused.
 
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Hackney Council
 
 
 

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Dean Grant, Hackney Borough Council

Dear Ms Mitchell,

Thank you for your request for information, which has now been passed to me to respond to. Firstly, I would like to apologise for the delay in providing this information to you.

As a point of clarification under question 4a and 4b, the Council does not complete any annual reviews as part of the fostering panel functions. Are you therefore requesting the overall total of reviews completed for 2012/13?

I would be grateful if you could confirm.

Your sincerely,

Dean Grant
Service Support Officer
Children & Young People's Service
Hackney Council

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Dear Dean Grant,

question 4a - Yes, this would account for those completed outside of panel in 2012/13.
Question 4b - yes but for those completed since 1st April to date.

Yours sincerely,

Miss S Mitchell

Dear Dean Grant,

Please can you inform me of when you expect to be able to respond to my FOI request as the deadline was 14th April.

Yours sincerely,

Miss S Mitchell

Dean Grant, Hackney Borough Council

Dear Ms Mitchell,

I can confirm that the response to your request for information is currently with the Council's Information Management Service for dispatch.

I have contacted the team to request that they expedite this today.

Yours sincerely,

Dean

Dean Grant
Service Support Officer
Children & Young People's Service
Hackney Council
0208 356 4779

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Information Management, Hackney Borough Council

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monitoring and recording your communication.
If you have received this e-mail in error please delete it immediately and
contact the sender.
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Hackney Service Centre on: 020 8356 3000.