The subject headings below link to the full request details along with the council's response.
10 Questions relating to Children and Young people absconing....
1. What support does your local authority offer to grandparents providing informal childcare for their grandchildren?
INFORMAL CHILDCARING
Please can you provide a breakdown of your local authorities spending on SEN Tribunals for each year from 2005 (or from the most recent year in which figures are available) to present....
My question is in relation to instances where an independent school has been named in a finalised and agreed Statement of Special Educational Needs (in Part 4).
Please confirm the current number of instances where the Parents pay the "regular" termly fees and the Authority pays the remainder of the...
1. What reasons did social services give to remove the child. Was "future risk of" used in this case?
2. Was the child placed on child protection and if so what were the categories used.
3. What was the name(s) of the social workers within this case.
4. Did social services conciser the...
What was your net expenditure for short breaks services for children aged 0-18 with a learning disability in
a) 2009/10
b) 2010/11
c) 2011/12
d) what was the agreed budget figure for 2012/13?...
6 questions in relation to care packages
I am wondering if you can tell me if you are aware of any incidents of inappropriate behavior between a teacher and an under-age pupil of a sexual or non-sexual nature in any of your schools in the past three years and, if so, can you provide details and say...
Full details of reports received of female pupils
a) having suffered;
b) suspected to have suffered or
c) believed to be at risk of suffering
female genital mutilation...
How many schools, which are covered by the council, are known - or are believed to - have asbestos in?
For each school, please state the name of the school and state the number of pupils currently attending....
How many children did you take into care (either interim or full) in the last financial year 2011/12 where the obesity of the child was cited as a factor in the care proceedings? If so please give (a) the age of the child, (b) the sex of the...
Number of cluster's and or federations in the authority.Which schools are in each cluster/federation.The name of the cluster or federation lead and the name of the
school in which they work....
How many complaints have you received alleging an inappropriate relationship between members of school and college staff and pupils for each of the years 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12?
How many members of staff were investigated during each of those years?
How many members of staff were disciplined for having an inappropriate relationship...
5 questions in relation to temporary accomodation
10 questions in relation to funding for early year services and family activities....
6 questions in relation to troubled families
The Criminal Records Bureau has identified your organisation that processes CRB applications. Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I hereby request the following:
The complete list of all Employer's Names for CRB certificates processed by your organisation.
For the purposes of clarity this is the entry known as...
8 questions in relation to Children Residential Homes...
10 question in relation to young children and schools....
14 question in relation to Timothy Edmeade Peadophile case and further questions regarding peadophiles....
Several questions in relation to pupil referral units....
6 questions regarding children with learning disabilities short break statistics....
7 questions in relation to childcare funding
1. How many children were looked by your local authority in the las t 12 months for which data is available?
2. How many children looked after by your local authority in the last 12 months for which data is...
7 questions in relation to services to children.
15 questions regarding local care services
5 questions regarding young people ,family and friend care....
1.The number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children in the care of the council/authority in each of the past five financial years.
2.The number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children in the care of the council/authority in each of the past five financial years who were believed to be the victims of human-trafficking.
3.The...
a.the number of investigations for fraudulent school applications in each academic
year since 2007. For each investigation in each year please state the number of children the investigation relates to.
b. please state the reason why the application was investigated eg parents claiming they were resident in a catchment...
. What estimate does Thurrock Council make of the total number of:
(a) youth clubs;
(b) sports clubs; and
(c) after school clubs
in the area...
How many children did you take into care (either interim or full) in the last financial year 2010/11 where the obesity of the child was cited as a factor in the care proceedings? If so please give (a) the age of the child and (b) the BMI of...
5 questions regarding child adoption.
Please disclose full details of the number of people enrolled at public libraries in the council area, on 31 March in each of the last five years, and at the latest available date.
I would like the information broken down to show, for each date requested:
16 questions in relation to schools and meals.
1.Please provide a breakdown by adult and children's services separately for all data
2.Please could you supply me with:
3.The total number of qualified social worker posts (filled and unfilled) in your council as of 1 July 2011
4.The number of vacant posts* as of 1 July 2011
5.The number of posts...
1. Please tell me your standard charges (assuming that the client is paying full price, having over £23,250 capital) for the following domiciliary services to those aged over 65:
a. Personal care (e.g. getting up, washing, getting dressed etc) - hourly rate.
b. Domestic help (e.g. shopping, laundry etc.) - hourly rate(s).
c....
3 questions in relation to local entertianment.
. Can you state how many children within your authority were (i) given a fixed period exclusion and (ii) permanently excluded from a school because of their involvement with a weapon of any description in the 2010/11 academic year?
2....
1. A list of all Children Centres in the Local Area, including the name of the Director of each and their respective email addresses.
2. A list all private child care facilities registered in the Local Area, including the name of the Manager of each and their respective email...
In 2011 six extra children where admitted to the reception classes in Warren primary school. Three in each class, taking the class size up to thirty three. Why was they added, and who made this decision ? Has this had detrimental effects on these children ? As the director of...
8 questions regarding childrens homes /homing children & its statistics....
How many children were taken into care by your authority in the following years: 2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2009/2010, 2010/2011, 2011/2012 and what are the reasons given for taking them into care if available?...
Please could you give me your basic foster care allowance for 0-4 year olds for 2012/13?...
Can Thurrock Council provide the number for school aged residents (reception to year 11) in the borough without school places. Could the data provided be broken down as follows:
1. Support provided pursuant to your powers under section 17 Children Act 1989 ("CA 1989")
Accommodation support
a) Please state how many have families subject to immigration control you have provided accommodation for in the past 2 years (giving a break-down per year) pursuant to your...
Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request received 12 June 2012. Unfortunately we are unable to provide all the information you have requested. We do hold the information but a qualified exemption applies and in the public interest it has been decided not to provide all the information you...
7 questions regarding Foster Care Payments.
, I would like to request information on the number of staff working exclusively in children's services. This figure should include people directly employed by the authority. If your children's service functionality is provided in full or in part by a third party provider, I would like the figure to...
A The policies and procedures which relate to social services removing children from the care of their parents.
B The criteria which has to be fulfilled to make a child eligible for being adopted out of a parents care
C...
Seven questions regarding Chafford Hundred Primary and its Statistics....
(1)Please state whether your authority operates under any protocols or joint working agreements setting out how the housing and social services departments deal with homeless 16 and 17 year olds. If so, please provide a copy of all of the current protocols and/or joint...
9 Questions relating to admissions to schools in Chafford Hundred...
Two questions regarding the Early Intervention Grant...
I am writing to make a request under the Freedom of Information Act for information on children known to the council amid concerns that they are, or at some stage have been, involved in the sex trade or child prostitution.
More specifically I am requesting the following:
The number of girls...
5 questions relating to children in care.
Please can you provide me with the total annual training budget for
Children's and Young People's Social Service's for the financial
years:
a) 2009 -2010
b) 2010 -2011
c) 2011 -2012
d) 2012 -2013...
1) Any potential procurement opportunities within the next year for learning disabilities and autism.
2) A copy of the contracts register of contracts held by the local authority for learning disabilities and autism for adult services with information about the number of contracts held, who they were awarded to,...
1.Please tell me how much funding your local authority received in 2009-10, 2010-11 and how much you are expecting for 2011 - 2012 from Central Government towards respite care/short breaks?
2. Please tell me how much on your local authority spent, is spending and intends to spend on providing additional hours...
1. What is the Local Authorities policy for notifying High Commissions and Embassies (their Consular Welfare Sections) regarding non-UK national children that are?
A. Taken in to Care
B. Being Adopted
2. What is the Local Authorities policy for enabling High Commissions and Embassies Consular Welfare access visits...
Connexions is the information, advice, guidance and support service for young people aged 13 to 19 (up to 25 for young people with learning difficulties and/or disabilities). Since 2008/9 it has been funded by local councils in England. We are making a request, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000,...
1. What is the maximum leaving care grant that you provide to care leavers?
2. What was the average leaving care grant given to care leavers in the financial year 2010/11?
3. What was the average leaving care grant given to care leavers in the financial year 2009/10?...
A. What is the official policy and actual practice regarding parents who wish to or who do audio or video or photographic record meetings either with or without (ie covertly) the LA's knowledge.
B. What is the LA's policy and practice regarding such recordings by service users....
Within this FOI request, I refer to any person or person(s) taking minutes within meetings and / or conferences concerning Adult or Child Social Services, either private meetings between the LA and professionals or meetings involving service users.
a) Are minute takers employed by the LA...
How many social workers employed or contracted to the LA are not properly registered with the GSCC as working in the LA's own area?
I.E. they are registered but in a different area.
What is the LA policy for addressing the issue of SWs not being properly registered as above as they...
1)Whether there have been cuts in Council funding to home to school transport, and what changes to school transport provision are foreseen as a result of that cut. If you are still considering proposals we would like to know what these are.
2)Whether there have been cuts to council funding for...
1) Actual spend by the Council on the provision of support for dyslexic school pupils (with or without statements) in the financial years 2009/10 and 2010/11, including staffing and all other expenditure.
2) Projected or budgeted council spending on the provision...
1. What is the published admission number for the relevant year group?
2. What is the Indicated Admission numenr for the relevant year group ?
3. What has been the cut-off point for admissions for the last 5 years?
4. How many pupils were admitted to the school in each of the last...
1. The number of children social care complaints received in year 2010/11.
2. The number of adult social care complaints received in year 2010/11.
3. The number of complaint managers who deal with children and adult social care complaints and the full time equivalent.
4. Does the manager role include investigation of complaints...
1. How many internationally qualified social workers have you appointed over the last three years?
2. How many such social workers have left your Department?
3. How many do you employ at the present time?
4. What are their countries of qualification?
5. If such social workers are on time limited contracts or have...
I would like to know how much the Council has spent outsourcing to Barristers Chambers advocacy work in child protection cases in the family courts to include the Family Proceedings Court, the County
Court, the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court/House of Lords. Any combination of those below,...
I am writing to request some information under the FOI Act from your Children's Services department relating to madrassas and mosques. I understand this information may be held by a Local Authority Designated Officer who oversees allegations of child protection breaches against those in a staff role working with...
1. How many contract monitoring staff who inspect services for vulnerable children and adults have been cut in
a) the last year, and
b) the last six months.
2. How many contract monitoring staff who inspect services for vulnerable children and adults does the council plan to cut in the next
a) two years
b)...
1. For each of the following years ending 31 March, how many adoptive families were in receipt of an adoption allowance from Thurrock Borough Council? What was the average weekly amount of that allowance?
Year to 31 March 2011
Year to 31 March 2010
Year to 31 March 2009
Year to 31 March 2008
Year...
I am seeking information from your Council regarding budgetary provision for specified matters in the last three complete financial years under Freedom of Information legislation.
Please complete attached questionnaire....
Please could you give me your basic foster care allowance for 0-4 year olds for 2010/11 and 2011/12....
What has happened to Children's Centres since the ring fence was removed and the budget amalgamated into the early years intervention grant....
Could you please state whether any facility time payments were made by the council relating to activity by these three unions (NUT, NASUWT, ATL) and if so, how much?
Please provide this information in relation to the latest year for which figures are available....
Please can you quantify your Council's expenditure during the 2010-2011 financial year on EACH of the following, -
First, Adopted Child Support Allowance
Second, Grants to Adoptive Parents to purchase furniture, equipment, etc, prior to the adopted children's arrival.
Third, prospective Adoptive Parents expenses,...
I am writing to request information under the Freedom Of Information Act 2000 relating to the number of schools sued by parents over the past five years. If possible could you separate the figures into each year. I would like to know:
1. The number of cases?
2. The general reasons for...
1. How many Looked After Children there were under the care of Thurrock Council at 31st March 2011?
2. Of these, a)how many were in independent/private sector residential placements and b) how many were in in-house residential accommodation.
3. How may residential placements were out of the borough?
4. Additionally, a)...
Any information relating the
(a) level of attendance childrens centres across Thurrock
(b) number of sessions run and
(c) and if available the average attendance per session per centre....
1. The total revenue spend by the Council on Sure Start Children's Centres in the 2010/11 financial year (this should not include capital spend).
2. The number of Sure Start Children's Centres operated or funded by the Council as at 4 April 2011.
3. The number of staff employed in Sure Start...
Please provide me with details of any and all communication (verbal, written or electronic) between Ministers or Special Advisers at the Department for Education and members or officers of the Council relating to the future of Sure Start Children's Centres provided or funded by the Council....
1. The total spend by the Council on the provision of support for deaf children in the 2009/10 and 2010/11 financial year.
2. The number of specialist staff employed or funded by the Council to provide support to deaf children as at 5 April 2010 and 4 April 2011 (full time...
1. The total net spend by the Council on the provision and subsidy of school meals in the 2009/10 and 2010/11 financial years.
2. The projected net spend by the Council on the provision and subsidy of school meals in the 2011/12 financial year.
3. The weekly price charged to parents for...
Would you please furnish us with the names and contact details of various people who fulfill these roles, or similar roles with different job titles, within your authority:
1. How many letters before action for Judicial Review concerning decisions within Children's or Adult Social Services did the Council receive in the 2010-2011 financial year?
2. How many of these proceeded to Court hearings?
3. How many of these resulted in the Council changing or modifying its original decision?
4. How many...
According to the Department of Health, your organisation is an early implementer of shadow Health & Wellbeing Boards (HWB).
Could you please provide me with the full contact details of the people proposed/currently members of your HWB?...
Please answer the following questions. Fair Play for Children is seeking to create data concerning provision of children's play areas in England by local authority. The questions relate to such areas provided and maintained by your authority directly in the main. These questions do not apply to school play areas...
I am researching the number of insurance claims made following an accident in a children's play area in order to analyse the success rate of them. Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would therefore be grateful if you would complete the attached simple spread sheet with the following information...
1. Do you provide free access for Looked After Children in the sports and leisure facilities provided by the local authority?
2. What, if any, financial or other support does the authority provide for Looked After Children to improve their access to sport and leisure facilities?
3. Do your Children's Services Plans...
How many children did you take into care (either interim or full) in the last financial year 09/10 where the obesity of the child was cited as a factor in the care proceedings? If so please give (a) the age of the child and (b) the BMI of...
Details of how Domestic Violence/Domestic Abuse is recorded on children's Services computer records
Can you please advise if you record on Children's Services computer records all reported details of Domestic Violence / Domestic Abuse on the following SEPARATE records:
a) the name of the child
b) the names of all other children in...
We live in Ruskin Road, Stanford le Hope and on 21st October, the climbing frame was pulled down. At the moment, the equipment in Hardy Park and the Stanford Recreation Ground remains. I would be grateful therefore, for answers to the following questions.
1. How much did the Council spend...
Request relating to the allegations against those working with children and young people. I would like the number of referrals after an allegation by employment sector and primary abuse category, for each academic year (1st September through to 31st August) since 2000, or the earliest available date if after 2000....
1. How many looked after children and young people in your care have committed suicide in the last five years (from 1st April 2005 to 31st March 2010)?
2. How many care leavers have committed suicide within one year of leaving care in the last five years (from 1st April 2005...
How many children (aged 16 and under) were taken into care by the Council in the following years. 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010...
1. How many Children in Need cases (excluding Looked After Children/Children in Care and Child Protection cases) are currently allocated to a qualified social worker in your council?
2. How many Children in Need cases (excluding Looked After Children/Children in Care and Child Protection cases) are currently not allocated to a...
Number of young people worked with because of involvement in gang activity.
The number of people who are on the authority's Youth Offending Team's caseload because of involvement in gang activity, youth violence and anti-social behaviour for the last three years 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10 and at present.
Please provide a breakdown of...
I would like to know how many children have been forcibly adopted (without parental consent) since the November 2006....
1. The total number of children who were in residential care paid by your authority for the financial year 2009/10.
2. The budget for these placements.
3. The proportion of placements that were with/without education...
How much money has been allocated by your authority to supporting teenage mothers since the government's Teenage Pregnancy Strategy began?...
I am writing to make a request for information regarding work permits for children under the age of 16. Could you please supply the following information for each of the past 10 years? (If information for all these years is not available, then please could you supply information for the...
1) How many children have been put into your care due to trafficking or under suspicion of being trafficked?
2) Could you give me the figures for the last five years?...
Please provide statistics for the financial years 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 - please provide separate statistics for each year.
1. Do you record incidents of violence, verbal abuse or harassment against social care staff?
If so, please forward the relevant statistics for the financial years outlined above (ensuring that these statistics...
1. Has your local authority set up a children in care council (these allow young people to have a greater say in the care they receive)? Please state Yes or No.
2. How many looked-after young people in your area have received higher education bursaries of £2,000 or more in...
1) How many education welfare officers does the local authority employ to support school children in your area?
2) How many educational psychologists does the local authority employ to support school children in your area?
3) How many children of compulsory school age are there in your local authority area?...
This is a Freedom of Information Request for data submitted by your Local Authority to the Parliamentary Select Committee on 'Allegations Against School Staff', the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) fifth report of session 2008-09. This involved the DCSF collecting data about allegations against staff as part...
1. Does your Council/LEA have a contract with Tribal Group for any of the following services:
2. Which schools receive these services and for how long? If Tribal Group has a contract that covers all...
Over the past 5 years, could you please tell me the number of children who have been victims of serious offences after they have gone into foster care, including rape, murder, sexual assaults and violent assaults.
Could you please break the figures down into allegations made by children (or their families),...
1)As of 1 January 2010, how were child protection cases unallocated? (An unallocated case is one in which there is no named qualified consistent social worker visiting a child regularly, following a purposeful plan overseen by a line manager).
2)How many children in your authority have been classified as having...
1)How many home educated children in your area were subject to a Child Protection Plan?
2)What was the total number of all children in your area who were subject to a Child Protection Plan?...
1. As of 1 November 2009 in your children's services department,
(a) how many full-time equivalent social workers were employed,
(b) how many social worker posts were filled by agency staff,
(c) how many and which social worker posts were vacant.
2. Is your children's services department currently expected...
How much has your authority spent on its Integrated Children's System in each of the past five years?
How many users does your Integrated Children's System currently have?
Who is the provider of your Integrated Children's System?
When did you implement your current Children's System?...
Please supply copies of documents/guidance provided for parent choice advisers (employed by the council to give parents advice about school admissions) advising them on their use of language, including any terms, phrases, words or language that should be avoided....
i) How many foster care applications have been received for which initial interviews with the applicant have not yet been carried out?
ii) How many registered foster carers/parents are there in the council's area?
iii) How many children awaiting a foster carer?...
1. What is the average weekly cost of providing homecare in your area (average
weekly cost per person)?
2. In five years' time how many people do you estimate would meet the criteria for
receiving homecare at the following levels:
a....
1. How many applications have you received for shielding of records on ContactPoint?
2. How many records have you agreed to shield on ContactPoint?...
Can I please have a list of all Part 8 Serious Case Reviews as a result of the death of a child commenced by your committee or authority identifying the age of the child and the month and year of the child's death. I am not expecting the name...
Q.1 How many times your Local Authority has applied for care orders via the
Family Courts WITHOUT the Welfare checklist set out in section 1 of the Children
Act 1989 being completed.
Q.2 Whoever signs the application for a care order is responsible for ensuring that the Welfare checklist has been fully...
How many children did you take into care (either interim or full) in the last financial year (08/09) where the obesity of the child was sited as a factor in the care proceedings? If so please give (a) the age of the child and (b) the BMI of the child....
In each of the last two financial years (07/08) and (08/09) how many children did your authority place on the Child Protection Register or who were given a Child Protection plan because of fears the child was known to be directly involved in the sex trade or child prostitution or...
1. In which of the following ways do the above services deal with Subject Access Requests under the Data Protection Act, received from clients or their nominated representatives?
A list of all Part 8 Serious Case Reviews as a result of the death of a child commenced by your committee from April 2008 - March 2009...
Please can you confirm for me the number of children you currently have registered as Electively Home Educated for the year. For the purposes of the remainder of this FOI request, these children are either de-registered from a school or have never been registered with a school.
A) I would like...
Request to provide details of the services for blind and partially sighted people provided by Thurrock Council's Social Services for (1) Adults (2) Children and Young People....
1. The number of social work posts in your local authority as of 31 January 2009.
2. The number of these posts filled by agency/temporary staff as of 31 January 2009.
3. The number of vacant social work posts in your local authority as of 31 January 2009.
4. Where possible, please provide...
1.Have you have replied to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in response to the £142 million free swimming fund programme and asked for / expressed interest in a grant to provide free swimming for over 60s in your locality? Please answer "yes" or "no".
2.If the...
Please supply a copy of estimated GCSE results for National Challenge schools for the next three years (or whichever years projections have been made), which have been submitted to the DCSF...
1a. Names of Domiciliary Care (Home Care) Agencies;
1b. Fostering Agencies and Independent Children's Homes that supply Thurrock Council;
2. The average time, over the past three months Thurrock Council pay care organisations after invoices submitted for work done....
How many ultrasonic teenage deterrent devices have been supplied to your Local Authority?...
1. Where will they be sited, if in school grounds, which schools?
2. Who will they be in partnership with?
3. Who will manage the nurseries, private or council?
4. Are they likely to be new build or in current buildings?
5. Who can be contacted for more information?
6....
1. How many children did your authority take into care in the six months from 1/1/07 to 30/06/07?
2. In how many of these cases was the obesity of the child a factor in relation to the reasons the child was taken into care?...
1. How many children did your authority take into care in the six months from 1/1/07 to 30/06/07?
2. In how many of these cases was the obesity of the child a factor in relation to the reasons the child was taken into care?...
Request for a list of funded projects that were announced as per the article in the Community Focus page of the Thurrock Gazette on March 9th 2007. In addition, what if any of the £20,000 allocated to the Youth Representative from Chafford Hundred was spent on?...
1. Where will they be sited, if in school grounds, which schools?
2. Who they will be in partnership with?
3. Who will manage the nurseries? Private or Council?
4. Are they likely to be new build or in current buildings?
5. Provide addresses and phone numbers, if possible?
6. Contact names, if possible?
7. When...
What is the total spend of interpreters and publications in foreign languages?...
Information on salary and benefits information for social workers, senior practitioners and team managers. Is performance related pay or market supplement payments paid additionally? What are the annual leave conditions and car provisions for social workers and benefits for newly qualified social workers?...
Request for data, relating to figures for missing children from 2006....
1. How many customers are currently in the Bronze Band?
2. Of those Bronze band customers how many require an additional bedroom?
3. Of those Bronze band customers requiring an additional bedroom how many are in circumstances which necessitates children of the opposite sex sharing one bedroom?...
Has the Council had contact from any parents asking for advice about sex offenders working in Thurrock schools? What advice has the Council given them?...
Request for copy of Section 52 budget statement for 2006-07 relating to the Youth Service....
1.Each authority's own assessment of progress on ICS
2. Copy of your local plan to ensure implementation by January 2007...
Thurrock has the worst adult reading levels in the South (if not all)of Essex. Why is Thurrock so poorly read and what is the Council doing about it?...
Sex Offenders and comments by Ruth Kelly: Is the Council's Education Department worried and are they going to change their own policies? Also, does the Council feel a need to take action in Thurrock schools?...
Details of school meal provision at Purfleet Primary School....
What progress is Chafford Primary School making with...
School transport problems:
What exact damage has been done to school transport vehicles and how much this has cost?
When specifically have the problems been occurring?
How many children use School transport?...
Gateway Community College:
When will building works begin?
Has anyone been chosen to build it, if not, how will the Council decide on a company?...
1) How many schools in each category - Primary and Secondary - are closing
and why? (i.e. surplus places, old buildings etc).
2) How many schools in each category are amalgamating and why? How many
empty buildings does this leave?
3) How many new schools in each category are opening and why?...
Details of plans for the Centre of Excellence to open in Grays for children with Special Educational Needs....
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