FOI Request - Family and Connected Persons Placements

Request 101003997365

1. Looked After Children with Immigration Status - For the calendar years 2023 – 2025 inclusive, for each calendar year, please share the number of LLooked After Children who had immigration status recorded as an issue of concern, including (but not limited to): no current immigration status, unresolved or insecure immigration status, or ongoing immigration or nationality applications. If it would threaten the privacy of any individual to report numbers year on year, please report for the full three-year basis (2023 – 2025 inclusive).

2. Number of Looked After children with immigration status: 2023, 2024, 2025

3. Number of Looked After children with NO immigration status: 2023, 2024, 2025

4. Number of Looked After Children with Family and/or Connected Persons abroad. For the calendar years 2023 – 2025, did you explore Family and/or Connected Persons overseas as potential carers for a child in your care? Yes/No

5. Number of children placed with Family and/or Connected Persons abroad. For each calendar year how many children were actually placed with Family and/or Connected Persons outside Scotland or outside the UK? If it would threaten the privacy of any individual to report numbers year on year, please report for the full three-year basis (2023 – 2025 inclusive). If your response is ‘nil’, please use ‘0’.

6. Placed outside of Scotland but within UK: 2023, 2024, 2025

7. Placed outside of the UK: 2023, 2024, 2025

8. Court orders used for placement overseas. For each calendar year what numbers and types of court orders were used to place children with Family and/or Connected Persons abroad? Please report for the full three-year basis (2023 – 2025 inclusive).

9. Compulsory Supervision Order: 2023, 2024, 2025

10. Permanence Order: 2023, 2024, 2025

11. Kinship Care Order: 2023, 2024, 2025

12. Guardianship Order: 2023, 2024, 2025

13. . Adoption Order: 2023, 2024, 2025

14. Other Order: 2023, 2024, 2025

15. No order but child placed: 2023, 2024, 2025

16. Post-placement support for overseas placements. Has your local authority made any financial support payments to kinship carers living overseas in the past three calendar years (2023, 2024, 2025)? Please list countries of residence of the formerly LAC.