- Request
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In relation to the first 20 cases of children that were taken into care (either interim or full) by your authority in the 2019 calendar year please provide me with the following information in connection with each of these cases.
1. The sex of the child?
2. The age of the child?
3. If any of the following factors are recorded in the papers you hold on the case as having been a factor in the council’s decision to take the child into care:
a) Proximity to a dangerous dog
b) The obesity of the child
c) A concern the child spends too much time playing computer games and/or on the internet
d) The child’s home environment is unhealthy due to cigarette smoke
e) The parents do not care adequately for the child because they spend too much time watching television and/or on the internet or
f) That the child has poor dental hygiene.
- Decision
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Gender
Age (Years)
Female
14
Male
13
Female
15
Male
3
Male
13
Male
0
Male
0
Female
0
Female
0
Female
0
Male
0
Male
0
Male
16
Male
16
Male
16
Female
13
Female
10
Female
14
Female
2
Male
16
Please see above for answers to questions 1 and 2.
3. There is no reference to any of the factors listed for any of these clients.
- Reference number
- FOI0375
- Date request received
- 24 July 2019
- Date of decision
- 19 August 2019