Children taken into care for assaulting or abusing others

1.How many children have been take into care for assaulting or abusing their parents/siblings/carers in each of the following years 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 (in financial or calendar years, however this information is held)?

We do not record this information as a separate category, therefore to locate and compile relevant information would mean a manual review of several hundred cases, for each of the years requested, with each one taking at least ten minutes, making a total well in excess of the limit of 18 hours specified in Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act – Cost of Compliance. Therefore this information is exempt.

To provide advice and assistance some data is published in Table LAH Offending by Children looked After for at Least 12 Months

2. Of those children mentioned in question 1, how many have been diagnosed with autism? Please could you provide a similar breakdown for each of the same years requested in question 1.

We do not hold this information. We have disclosed information to support a previous request about autism.

3. How many of these children attended any programmes aimed at perpetrators of domestic violence in those same years requested in question 1.

We do not record this information as a separate category, therefore to locate and compile relevant information would mean a manual review of several hundred cases, for each of the years requested, with each one taking at least ten minutes, making a total well in excess of the limit of 18 hours specified in Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act – Cost of Compliance. Therefore this information is exempt.