FOI request (FOIR-569011864)

Children removed

Requested Wed 13 December 2023
Responded Tue 19 December 2023

I am writing to request information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please provide the answers to the following questions:

1. How many children have been removed from families and taken into foster care within the last 5 years within your councils district?

2. How many children have been returned to their families from foster care within the last 5 years within your councils district?

3. How many cases of abuse have been reported in foster care or adoption placements within the last 5 years within your councils district?

4. How many cases of sexual assaults have been recorded/reported in foster care or adoption placements within the last 5 years within your councils district? And out of that number, how many have been confirmed/validated to be legitimate?

5. How many cases of mistreatment have been recorded/reported in foster care or adoption placements within the last 5 years within your councils district? And out of that number, how many have been confirmed/validated to be legitimate?

6. How many foster carers/adoption parents have been struck off due to sexual assaults, violence or abuse on children within your district within the last 5 years?

7. How many social workers within the last 10 years have been removed from your councils district due to neglect, abuse or wrongful removal of children?

8. How many cases of wrongful removals of children have been recorded within your councils district in the last 5 years?

9. What is the number of homosexual men that foster only boys within your councils district within the last 5 years?

Additionally, please provide the following:

10. An up-to-date chart/PDF of the structure/division of authority for Children and Young People's Services within your council's district, similar to the one available here:

https://www.bathnes.gov.uk/sites/default/files/children_young_people_and_families_division_april_2018.pdf

11. A list of all the names of people working within your council's district for Children and Young People's Services.

Response

Information not held.

Children's Services are dealt with by East Sussex County Council, please visit their website for further information:

https://www.eastsussex.gov.uk