- Request
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1. The total number of looked after children the council currently (as of, or around, today's date) has Corporate Parenting responsibility for, who are currently placed in residential children's homes (excluding fostering placements, secure children's homes, residential special schools registered as children's homes, children's homes that provide respite care or short breaks only, and unregulated settings).
Please note this definition of children's homes is the same used by the Department for Education in collating children's homes data in the Children's Homes Data Pack.
2. A breakdown of this total showing the number of placements within the local authority, and the number outside the local authority.
Example table below:
TABLE:
Placements within the LA Home local authority - Number of placements eg Council name - x
TABLE: Placements outside the LA Outside local authorities -
Number of placements eg
Manchester - x
eg Sefton - x
eg York City - x …
and so on
- Decision
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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
County
Count of
Placements
Lincolnshire
12
Out of County
Count of
Placements
Derbyshire
1
East Riding of Yorkshire
1
Norfolk
2
Northamptonshire
1
Nottingham City
2
Nottinghamshire
1
South Yorkshire
2
Staffordshire
1
West Midlands
2
West Yorkshire
1
Cambridgeshire
5
Leicestershire
3
Stirlingshire
1
Grand Total
35
Information correct as at 31/03/23
- Reference number
- FOI 6506605
- Date request received
- 04/04/23
- Date of decision
- 04/05/23