Children in care and in un-regulated accommodation - Find a freedom of information request

Request

Please would you send me for the following calendar years 2023 to date,

1) How many children in care were put into un-regulated accommodation

a) How many children in un-regulated accommodation were reported missing

b) How many children were never/have never been found

c) The average amount of time in days for those who were found, to be found. If possible please also break down the above data by ethnicity and gender.

2022.

2) How many children in care were put into un-regulated accommodation

a) How many children in un-regulated accommodation were reported missing

b) How many children were never/have never being found

c) The average amount of time in days for those who were found, to be found. If possible please also break down the above data by ethnicity and gender.

2022

3) How many children in care were put into un-regulated accommodation

a) How many children in un-regulated accommodation were reported missing

b) How many children were never/have never being found. If possible please also break down the above data by ethnicity and gender.

c) The average amount of time in days for those who were found, to be found 2020,

4) How many children in care were put into un-regulated accommodation

a) How many children in un-regulated accommodation were reported missing

b) How many children were never/have never being found

c) The average amount of time in days for those who were found, to be found.

If possible please also break down the above data by ethnicity and gender.

Decision

In Lincolnshire, if we place a young person over the age of 16 into an unregulated provision, we ensure that those provisions are directly commissioned and that they are tightly contact managed. Each provision is monitored centrally, visited and required to be Section 11 compliant. Lincolnshire is very specific about which unregulated options it will commission for children in care.

1) See table below for 2023 to date

Un-regulated Accommodation 
Placement 2020 2021 2022 2023
Denton

8 female

2 male

10 total

4 female

2 male

6 total

6 female 

1 male

7 total

3 female 

2 male

5 total

Missing 0 0 0 0
Ethnicity

1 polish male 

9 white/british

6 white/british 7 white/britsh 7 white/british
 
Rowston

6 female

5 male

11 total

4 female

4 male

8 total

4 female 

5 male

9 total

6 female 

2 male

8 total

Missing 0 0 0 0
Ethnicity 11 white/british  8 white/british

1 polish female

8 white/british

8 white/british

2022

2) 177
a) See question 1
b) See question 1
c) See question 1


2021
3) 163
a) See question 1
b) See question 1
c) See question 1


2020
4) 173
a) See question 1
b) See question 1
c) See question 1

Reference number
5994337
Date request received
9 February 2023
Date of decision
25 September 2023