FI17481

Request

I am writing to request, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, the below information relating to child criminal exploitation (CCE) for the financial years: 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26. 

Please provide gender and age breakdowns of all the figures. Where possible please use the following age bands: 9 and under, 10–12, 13–15, 16–17. If these age bands are not available, please provide whichever age bands are available. 

  1. The number of individual children whose children's social care assessment recorded “child criminal exploitation (CCE)” as a factor.
  2. For the figures provided in question 1, please provide the number who were referred to a specialist CCE service, programme, team or intervention. Please provide: 
    • the name of the service, programme or team; 
    • the number of children referred;
    • whether the service is operated by the council, commissioned by the council, or delivered by a partner organisation.
    • If no specialist CCE service, programme or team exists, please state what provision is available for children whose social care assessment records CCE as a factor.
  3. The total annual spend on tackling CCE.
  4. The number of children whose children's social care assessment recorded CCE as a factor and who were placed in the council's local authority area.
  5. The number of children whose children's social care assessment recorded CCE as a factor and who were placed outside the council's local authority area.
  6. For the figures provided in question 5, the number of those children placed: 
    • within the local authority's home region (e.g. Yorkshire and the Humber, North West, East Midlands, etc.);  
    • elsewhere in England;  
    • elsewhere in the UK;  
    • outside the UK.
  7. The total amount spent annually by the council on placements for children counted in questions 4 and 5, broken down by inside and outside the council's local authority area.
  8. The average annual placement cost per child for those counted in question 5.
  9. The number of children counted in question 5 who were: 
    • looked-after children;  
    • subject to a child protection plan;  
    • children in need.

Response

Dover District Council does not hold the information you are seeking. The social care authority within our District is Kent County Council, who should be able to assist you and can be contacted at the following address: freedomofinformation@kent.gov.uk.