- Title or Description
- Looked After Children
- FOI Number
- 2024534
- Date Received
- 16/05/2024
- Type of Request
- FOI
- Request or Question
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1. How many Looked After Children under the care of your council were placed as at 31st December 2023:1. Outside the council s boundary and more than 20 miles away from home?
2. Outside the council s boundary and more than 50 miles away from home?
3. Outside the council s boundary and more than 100 miles away from home?
2. How many Looked After Children's residential care placements (both external and in-house) were costing more than 10,000 per week as at 31st December 2023 (whether you were paying for it standalone or in combination with health partners)?
3. As at 31st December 2023, what was the highest weekly cost of a Looked After Child's residential care placement that your council was paying for standalone (i.e. no other partner organisations such as Health were contributing towards it)?
4. As at 31st December 2023, what was the highest weekly cost of a Looked After Child's residential care placement that your council was contributing to with other partners such as Health?
5. In relation to both questions 2, 3 and 4, what were the names of the residential care homes where the Looked After Children were residing? - Response
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1. How many Looked After Children under the care of your council were placed as at 31st December 2023:
In total, 58 Looked After Children were looked after out of the authority.
1a. Outside the council s boundary and more than 20 miles away from home?
0 (0-20 miles)
1b. Outside the council s boundary and more than 50 miles away from home?
24 (21-50 miles)
1c. Outside the council s boundary and more than 100 miles away from home?
34 (51+ miles)
2. How many Looked After Children's residential care placements (both external and in-house) were costing more than 10,000 per week as at 31st December 2023 (whether you were paying for it standalone or in combination with health partners)? One
3. As at 31st December 2023, what was the highest weekly cost of a Looked After Child's residential care placement that your council was paying for standalone (i.e. no other partner organisations such as Health were contributing towards it)? See below
4. As at 31st December 2023, what was the highest weekly cost of a Looked After Child's residential care placement that your council was contributing to with other partners such as Health? N/A
5. In relation to both questions 2, 3 and 4, what were the names of the residential care homes where the Looked After Children were residing? See Below
In relation to Q2 and 3 - As there is only one placement, the Council would consider this information commercially sensitive therefore section 33(1)(b) of FOI(S)A 2002 applies. To provide this information may prejudice the commercial interests of contractor. The release this information may give information regarding pricing policy of operators and also give unfair advantage should the information be shared.
Commercially sensitive information will typically involve any data which, if misused, could jeopardise a businesses' general commercial interests. An issue could arise if the commercially sensitive information is released to either a competitor or the general public.
We have considered the public interest test and it will always be in the public interest for the Council to obtain best value and by disclosing this information would prejudice this.
In addition, because there is only one placement this identifies how much money is spent on one individual. As such, section 38(1)(b) of FOI(S)A 2002 is also being relied on.
