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Record Ref : FOI 11941
Date Received : 04/02/2026
Date Completed : 01/04/2026
Organisation : Whatdotheyknow.com
Application Type : Company
Category : Child Protection
Question
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.
Answer
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