Cofnod Datgeliadau

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Q1.

The total number of child relinquishment requests per year for each of the last ten years.

For the avoidance of doubt, this refers to instances where birth or adoptive parents contacted the local authority requesting that Children’s Social Care Services assume care responsibility for a child.

Q2.

For the calendar years 2023 and 2024, and for 2025 if available:

• The number of referrals received by Children’s Social Care Services where domestic abuse was recorded as a factor; and

If 2025 figures are incomplete, please provide whatever data is currently available and specify the date range that the data covers.

Q3.

For each of the last five years, please provide either:

• The annual staff (or ideally just social worker, if these figure exist) sickness or absence rate already held by the authority (for example, percentage of working time lost), or • If no such percentage is routinely recorded, the total number of working days lost to sickness/absence and the total number of contracted working days for Children’s Social Care Services staff in each year.

Please provide whichever of the above is held in recorded form.

Q4.

The average caseload, and the average number of children (if different) held by qualified social care workers in:

• Frontline child protection assessment teams; and • Safeguarding teams for each of the last five years.

Ateb

Q1.

The total number of child relinquishment requests per year for each of the last ten years.

No information held.

Q2.

For the calendar years 2023 and 2024, and for 2025 if available:

The number of referrals received by Children’s Social Care Services where domestic abuse was recorded as a factor.

Referrals where domestic abuse was recorded as the factor

2023 = 1337

2024 = 1162

2025 = 1148

Q3.

For each of the last five years, please provide either:

• The annual staff (or ideally just social worker,

Year Days Taken FTE

2025 2332 128.1135

2024 1294 120.0112

2023 2134 116.9505

2022 1519 106.9875

2021 1117 102.34

Q4.

The average caseload, and the average number of children (if different) held by qualified social care workers in:

31/03/2025 = 6 children

31/03/2024 = 6 children

31/03/2023 = 18 children

31/03/2022 = 14 children

31/03/2021 = 9 children

Average number of children held by qualified social care workers in safeguarding team

31/03/2025 = 10 children

31/03/2024 = 8 children

31/03/2023 = 8 children

31/03/2022 = 8 children

31/03/2021 = 8 children