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Number of adoption placement orders for 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24

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Case reference FOI2025/00001

Received 1 January 2025

Published 30 January 2025

Request

Freedom of Information request

A placement order is a court order that a child should be put up for adoption.

The Statistical Neighbours (SNs) of Herefordshire per LAIT (Local Authority Interactive Tool) are (or was):

• Cornwall

• Cumbria*

• Devon

• Dorset

• Gloucestershire

• Norfolk

• Shropshire

• Somerset

• Suffolk

• Wiltshire

* Per LAIT, Cumbria was not a Statistical Neighbour in 2023-24.

1) Please disclose the number and rate (per 10,000 children) of placement orders for 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 for:

• Herefordshire

• Each of above the Statistical Neighbours

• England

• West Midlands region

2) Please disclose the total number of placement orders for all of the Statistical Neighbours (i.e. SNs combined) for 2021 22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 (excluding Herefordshire).

3) Please disclose the Statistical Neighbours’ average rate (per 10,000 children) of placement orders for 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 (excluding Herefordshire).

You may wish to display all or part of the response in a table.

Response

Freedom of Information request

A placement order is a court order that a child should be put up for adoption.

The Statistical Neighbours (SNs) of Herefordshire per LAIT (Local Authority Interactive Tool) are (or was):

• Cornwall

• Cumbria*

• Devon

• Dorset

• Gloucestershire

• Norfolk

• Shropshire

• Somerset

• Suffolk

• Wiltshire

* Per LAIT, Cumbria was not a Statistical Neighbour in 2023-24.

1) Please disclose the number and rate (per 10,000 children) of placement orders for 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 for:

• Herefordshire

• Each of above the Statistical Neighbours

• England

• West Midlands region

2) Please disclose the total number of placement orders for all of the Statistical Neighbours (i.e. SNs combined) for 2021 22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 (excluding Herefordshire).

3) Please disclose the Statistical Neighbours’ average rate (per 10,000 children) of placement orders for 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24 (excluding Herefordshire).

You may wish to display all or part of the response in a table.

Answer: The information for the 3 questions above is publically available online and can be viewed via the following link:

The Children's and Social Care Secretariat - Coram : Coram

The Service Area have advised the figure per 10,000 is not provided within the data sets but this information can be obtained from mid-term estimates reporting.

As such we consider this information to be exempt under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 because it is reasonably accessible to you via other means. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.

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