Vulnerable Looked After Children - Find a freedom of information request

Please could you provide data you hold as a percentage or figures including the number of children affected against the total number of children in care between 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2019 that were:

1. Categorised by Social Services at risk whilst in care

2. Placed in a secure unit or lock-in facility

3. Reported missing

4. Arrested

5. Convicted of a criminal offense

6. In prison or young offender institutions

7. Hospitalised

8. Receiving on-going mental health treatment

9. Recorded by yourselves or a foster agency as having committed an act of self-harm

10. Achieving 90% attendance at school

11. Please could also provide information relating to how many looked after children and formally looked after children died between 01/01/2015 - 06/12/2020 that the Council is aware of and the reported causes of death if it is known to the council?

Total in Care between 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2019: 908

1.15

2.7

3.102

4. 34 (the caveat here being that LCC can only report on offences, not arrests as LCC don't receive all arrest information from the Police)

5. 21

6. 9

7. Not recorded

8. Not recorded

9. Not recorded

10. 292 out of 361 children

11.

a. Four looked after children died between 01.01.2015 and 06.12.2020 Three of these children had serious life limiting conditions and one child died as a result of injuries sustained prior to being a LAC.

b. LCC do not routinely gather information in relation to the deaths of formally LAC but our records indicate that we are aware of the deaths of 29 formally LAC between 01.01.2015 and 06.12.2020. The former LAC ranged in age from 25-55 at their time of death but we are unable to provide further information in relation to the cause of death.