Children in care as a result of Violence
Case reference FOI2024/01050
Received 17 June 2024
Published 25 June 2024
Request
Response
In the 2023 calendar year how many children were taken into care where there was a recorded concern that the parents/carers were at risk of physical violence from the child? Please state the ages and sexes of any children involved.
This information 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 do not record this detail as a reportable field in the child’s file. To ascertain the data requested officers would need to manually check paper files for this information. An initial search has shown at least 120 files would need to be checked for this information, and it is estimated that it would take 30 minutes to check each file.
This would at a conservative estimate take at least 60 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.
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