- Title or Description
- Support provided to families
- FOI Number
- 2024284
- Date Received
- 05/03/2024
- Type of Request
- FOI
- Request or Question
- FOI Question 1: Does your (I) adult social work team, (ii) children and families social work team, or (iii) other relevant department provide or commission dedicated supported parenting services for parents with learning disabilities? If yes, how many parents have accessed this service in the previous 12 months? FOI Question 2: How many children (who have one or more parent with learning disabilities) were in the following placement types on 29th February, 2024: Cared for with birth family (no ongoing support from social work) Cared for with birth family (under section 25; voluntary arrangement) Cared for with birth family (with a Compulsory Supervision Order) Kinship care In care Adopted Other, please specify
- Response
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No Scottish Borders Council has considered your request and concluded that the cost of complying with it would be more than 600.
Under S12 (1) of FOISA 2002 Scottish Borders Council is not obliged to comply with a request that is estimated to exceed this cost. We don t record in the child s mosaic file anywhere that is reportable about a parents learning disability. If a parent had an LD it may be recorded on the front screen as an alert as a narrative but this is not data that we can collect without manual scrutiny of individual files. This would take a considerable amount of time to complete and would exceed the threshold of cost incurred in responding to an FOI request, and we therefore apply section 12 of FOISA. N/A Scottish Borders Council has considered your request and concluded that the cost of complying with it would be more than 600. Under S12 (1) of FOISA 2002 Scottish Borders Council is not obliged to comply with a request that is estimated to exceed this cost. Regarding the 3 bullet points above, this would require manual scrutiny of approx. 220 records on our system to obtain the answer and it would take a considerable amount of time to complete and would exceed the threshold of cost incurred in responding to an FOI request, and we therefore apply section 12 of FOISA. Adopted We would not hold or provide this information. Adopted children are no longer Children and Families Social Work cases. Also, the numbers would be
