FOI Request - Looked After Children in Children's Homes

Request 101002037193

1/ For each of the last four financial years (including 2017/18), how many looked after children were placed in children's homes within the authority area?
a) in total
b) were ‘out-of-borough’ (i.e. they were moved into a home within the local authority/borough from an alternative local authority)
and c) were recognised as being at risk from CSE?

2/ For each of the last four financial years (including 2017/18), how many missing episodes occurred involving looked after children placed in children's homes within the authority area
a) in total
b) Where the children were ‘out-of-borough’ (i.e. they were moved into a home within the local authority/borough from an alternative local authority)
and c) Where the children were recognised as being at risk from CSE?

3/  In the last financial year (2017/18), how many looked after children went missing from children’s homes on 10 or more occasions in a single year?
a) In total
b) Where the children were 'out-of-borough'
and c) Where the children were recognised as being at risk from CSE?

4/ For the entirety of the last four financial years (including 2017/18), how many looked after children placed in children's homes within the local authority who went missing were never found (i.e. no agency learned of their whereabouts)?

5/ The most number of times (episodes) that an individual looked after child went missing from a children's home within the local authority in the last financial year (2017/18)?

Response 11-02-2019

1. a) 
2014-15 23 in Moray
2015-16 18 in Moray
2016-17 24 in Moray
2017-18 28 in Moray

b) 28

c) The numbers are so few that disclosure could risk identifying individuals. This information is therefore exempt under section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002; personal information. 

2. a) b) and c) In accordance with section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 please be advised that this information is not held. 

3. a) 8 

b) None

c) In accordance with section 18 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 we can neither confirm nor deny this figure. 

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