Children In Care - Find a freedom of information request

In relation to the first 20 cases of children that were taken into care (either interim or full) by your authority in the 2022 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 is not being given enough food to eat.

NOTE: Please note that if you feel providing an answer to Q.1 and Q.2 with Q3 would breach S.40 then I would request that you ONLY answer Q.3.

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

Please see below table for the response to questions 1 & 2

In the first 20 cases of children that were taken into care (interim or full) by the authority none of them were for the reasons mentioned in question 3.