Cumbria County Council

Information Governance Team – House – 117 Botchergate – – CA1 1RD T: 01228 221234 – E: [email protected]

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DATE 13 December 2018 Your reference: Our reference: IG 01170

Dear

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - DISCLOSURE

The council has completed its search relating to your request for information about looked after children placements, which we received on 4 December 2018.

The council does hold information within the definition of your request.

REQUEST

Under the Freedom of Information Act, please can you provide me with information about looked-after children placed in care in the local authority area by other councils during the past five financial years (2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, and 2017/18). For each year, please can you provide a list of councils that have placed children in care in the area and the number of children.

Please can you also provide me with information about looked-after children from the local authority area who have been placed in care in other local authority areas during the past five financial years (2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, and 2017/18). For each year, please can you provide a list of councils where the children have been placed and the number of children.

RESPONSE

Please see attached spreadsheet.

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Yours sincerely

Anita

Anita Timperon Information Governance Team Corporate, Customer and Community Services

Serving the people of Cumbria cumbria.gov.uk Figures are for new placements recorded as starting in the year

Children placed in Cumbria by other authorities 13/14 14/15 15/16 16/17 17/18 Aberdeen <10 <10 Barking and Dagenham <10 Barnet <10 <10 Bedfordshire <10 Berkshire <10 Blackburn with Darwen <10 <10 <10 Blackpool <10 <10 <10 Bolton <10 <10 Bradford <10 <10 <10 Bristol <10 Bromley <10 Buckinghamshire <10 Bury <10 Calderdale <10 <10 Cambridgeshire <10 Cardiff <10 <10 Cheshire East <10 <10 Cheshire West and Chester <10 City of Edinburgh <10 <10 Croydon <10 Darlington <10 <10 <10 <10 Denbighshire <10 Devon <10 Dumfries and Galloway <10 Durham <10 <10 Ealing <10 East Riding of Yorkshire <10 Fife <10 Flintshire <10 Gateshead <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 Glasgow City <10 <10 Greenwich <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 Hackney <10 Halton <10 <10 Hartlepool <10 <10 Havering <10 Herefordshire <10 Hertfordshire <10 <10 <10 <10 Highland <10 <10 Hull <10 Kensington and Chelsea <10 Kent <10 Kingston-upon-Thames <10 Kirklees <10 <10 <10 Knowsley <10 <10 Lambeth <10 <10 Lancashire <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 Leeds <10 <10 <10 Leicester <10 Leicestershire <10 <10 <10 Lewisham <10 <10 <10 <10 Lincolnshire <10 <10 <10 <10 Liverpool <10 <10 <10 <10 Manchester <10 <10 <10 <10 Merton <10 Middlesborough <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 Milton Keynes <10 Newcastle <10 <10 <10 Newham <10 Norfolk <10 <10 North Ayrshire <10 North East Lincolnshire <10 North Somerset <10 North Tyneside <10 <10 <10 <10 North Yorkshire <10 <10 <10 <10 Northamptonshire <10 <10 Northumberland <10 <10 <10 <10 Nottingham <10 Nottinghamshire <10 Oxfordshire <10 <10 Peterborough <10 Portsmouth <10 Redcar and Cleveland <10 <10 <10 <10 Renfrewshire <10 Richmond upon Thames <10 <10 Rochdale <10 <10 Rotherham <10 <10 Salford <10 <10 Scottish Borders <10 < 5 Sefton <10 <10 <10 <10 Shropshire <10 South Gloucestershire <10 South Tyneside <10 <10 <10 Southampton <10 Southend <10 Southwark <10 <10 St Helens <10 <10 Staffordshire <10 <10 <10 <10 Stockport <10 Stockton on Tees <10 <10 <10 <10 Stoke on Trent <10 <10 Sunderland <10 <10 <10 <10 Sutton <10 Swansea <10 Tameside <10 <10 <10 Torbay <10 Torfaen <10 Trafford <10 <10 <10 Wakefield <10 <10 Walsall <10 <10 Waltham Forest <10 <10 Wandsworth <10 <10 Warrington <10 <10 Wigan <10 <10 Wirral <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 Wolverhampton <10 Worcestershire <10 Wrexham <10 York <10 <10 Children placed by Cumbria in other authorities 13/14 14/15 15/16 16/17 17/18 Argyll and Butre <10 Barnsley <10 <10 Bexley <10 Blackburn with Darwen <10 <10 <10 Blackpool <10 <10 <10 <10 Bolton <10 <10 <10 Bradford <10 <10 <10 Brent <10 Brighton and Hove <10 Bury <10 <10 <10 <10 Caerphilly < 5 Calderdale <10 <10 <10 Cambridgeshire <10 <10 Cheshire East <10 <10 <10 <10 Cheshire West and Chester <10 <10 <10 City of Edinburgh <10 Coventry <10 Darlington <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 Devon <10 Doncaster <10 Dumfries and Galloway <10 <10 <10 10 10 Durham 18 17 15 <10 12 East Ayrshire <10 <10 <10 East Sussex <10 Enfield <10 Fife <10 Gateshead <10 <10 <10 <10 Glasgow City <10 Halton <10 <10 Hartlepool <10 <10 Hertfordshire <10 Highland <10 Hull <10 <10 Kent <10 <10 Kirklees <10 Knowsley <10 <10 Lancashire 62 51 46 49 49 Leeds <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 Leicestershire <10 Lincolnshire <10 <10 Liverpool <10 <10 <10 Manchester <10 <10 <10 Middlesborough <10 <10 <10 Neath Port Talbot <10 Newcastle upon Tyne <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 Newham <10 Norfolk <10 North Ayrshire <10 North Lincolnshire <10 North Tyneside <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 North Yorkshire <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 Northamptonshire <10 <10 <10 Northumberland <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 Nottinghamshire <10 <10 Oldham <10 <10 <10 Peterborough <10 Redbridge <10 Redcar and Cleveland <10 Renfrewshire <10 <10 <10 Rochdale <10 <10 <10 <10 Salford <10 <10 <10 Sandwell <10 Scottish Borders <10 <10 <10 Sefton <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 Sheffield <10 <10 Somerset <10 South Ayrshire <10 South Lanarkshire <10 South Tyneside <10 <10 <10 <10 St Helens <10 <10 Staffordshire <10 <10 <10 Stirling <10 Stockport <10 <10 <10 Stockton-on-Tees <10 <10 <10 <10 <10 Sunderland <10 10 17 Tameside <10 <10 <10 Trafford <10 <10 Wakefield <10 Warrington <10 <10 <10 Warwickshire <10 <10 West Berkshire <10 West Sussex <10 Wigan <10 <10 <10 <10 Wirral <10 <10 <10 <10 Worcestershire <10 <10 Wrexham <10 York <10 <10