FOI request (FOIR-593657503)

Homes for Ukraine sponsors

Requested Fri 08 March 2024
Responded Fri 15 March 2024

1. Please can you provide a figure for the number of times your local authority has received a government alert of a serious safeguarding issue regarding a Homes for Ukraine sponsor/host since March 2022 to present?

2. Please can you detail whether the Home Office shared the details of the reason for their alert in each case, and if so, what they were?

3. Please can you detail what action was taken following each alert? For example, Ukrainian moved out of sponsor home, Ukrainian stayed at sponsor home.

If this is too hard to collate, or would take too much time, please only provide data for the number of alerts from government (point 1).

Response

Safeguarding issues regarding a Homes for Ukraine sponsors in East Sussex are managed by East Sussex County Council, please visit their website for further information:

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk