FII investigated and alleged 2024 by Child social services
Case reference FOI2025/00895
Received 7 May 2025
Published 19 May 2025
Request
1. I ask the council to confirm how many times its social workers investigated FII fabricated or induced illness also known as munchausens by proxy in febuary of the year 2024.
2. I ask how many times its social workers alleged FII fabricated or induced illness also known as munchausens by proxy in Febuary of the year 2024.
3. I ask has the council in the past 10 years accused and formerly notified police of a case of FII fabricated or induced illness also known as munchausens by proxy?
Response
1. I ask the council to confirm how many times its social workers investigated FII fabricated or induced illness also known as munchausens by proxy in febuary of the year 2024.
2. I ask how many times its social workers alleged FII fabricated or induced illness also known as munchausens by proxy in Febuary of the year 2024.
3. I ask has the council in the past 10 years accused and formerly notified police of a case of FII fabricated or induced illness also known as munchausens by proxy?
A: The information requested above is not held in a form that would enable it to be located, retrieved and extracted within the Appropriate Time Limit which equates to 18 hours as defined by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limits and Fees) Regulations 2004.
Our electronic reporting systems are unable to run a report for this information. To ascertain the data requested officers would need to manually check all open cases at February 2024 for this information. An initial search has shown that 1150 cases would need to be checked for this information, and it is estimated that it would take 5 minutes to check each file.
This would at a conservative estimate take at least 38 hours to complete. Where the Limit is exceeded Public Authorities are not obliged to supply the information requested by virtue of S12 of the Act. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.
The Service Area have advised that even if the timeframe of your request was reduced, it would still involve a manual check of all open cases, which would be around the same number as in this request, however if there is a way you wish to refine your request, please do let me know and I can put this to the service area.
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