Children in Care - Find a freedom of information request

1) How many children have been taken into care because their primary caregiver (in this case, the mother) was remanded into custody? This could either be the number of children in total or the number of instances when it has happened (whichever data is held or if possible, both)

2) Out of these, how many were returned to their primary caregiver within 1 week (in this case, the mother) upon release? 

Note - Please can this be broken down to reflect the numbers across 2021, 2022, 2023 - (present day, if the data is held)

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.

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Low figures are considered exempt under Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) where disclosure would allow the possibility of a living individual being identified. Lincolnshire County Council believes that providing this data could potentially lead to the identification of those children and that disclosure of and the potential risk to the rights of others that could result, would not provide any greater understanding of the subject matter. We have therefore provided the response of '<5' to provide insight without contravening Schedule 2 Part 3,

Section 16 of the Data Protection Act 2018 relating to the protection of the rights of others.

We rely upon Section 40(2) FOIA to withhold this information in this regard.