FI15585

Request

Please release the following information relating to looked after children in the care of your authority for the periods:

- 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022

- 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023

- 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024

- 1 January 2025 to 31 January 2025 

1. Please tell me the total number of looked after children in the care of your authority during each of these years. 

1a. Please tell me the total number of looked after children in the care of your authority who have gone missing or absent during each of these years. 

1b. Please tell how many many of them in total are still missing? 

1c. Please tell me the total number of individual incidents (which could involve the same kid on more than one occasion) of looked after children in the care of your authority going missing in each of the above listed years. 

1c. If possible, please provide a breakdown of how long they were missing for and the types of accommodation they went missing from. 

2. Please tell me the total number of looked after children in the care of your authority that have identified as an unaccompanied asylum-seeking child (UASC) or a separated child in each of the above listed years. 

3. Please tell me the total number of looked after children in the care of your authority identified as an UASC or separated child and that have gone missing or absent in each of the above listed years. 

4. Please tell me total number of individual incidents (which could involve the same kid on more than one occasion) of looked after children in the care of your authority identified as an UASC or separated child and that have gone missing or absent in each of the above listed years. 

5. Please tell me total number of looked after children in the care of your authority that are still missing or absent (including those who subsequently turned 18 without being found) that were identified or suspected as an UASC or separated child. 

If possible, for all of the above please provide a breakdown of these numbers by year, nationality of the child, their age and the type of accomodation they went missing from. 

If identification is a concern due to small numbers involved, please give the total figures and specify whether the child is British / an EU national / non EU national. 

For questions three and four, please add the length of time the child was missing during each incident.

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.