Residential Unit Assessment and Support

Provision (for the purposes of assessment or support) for parents/mothers and babies, where the child is at risk of being taken into care in your local authority area.



This provision may be commissioned or in-house and could be described as:

Residential parenting assessment

Specialist) parenting assessment placement/unit

Residential family centre

Mother/parent and baby unit (MBU)

Intensive parenting assessment unit



(If your authority uses different terminology, please include equivalent services)



Please provide data relating to your current provision.

If exact figures are not held, please provide your best estimate and state this clearly.



Question 1:

How many residential units or centres within your local authority area provide accommodation for parents/mothers and babies for assessment or support?



Question 2:

What is the total number of residential places available in these units or centres?

A: Number of places for a parent/mother

B: Number of places for babies



Question 3:

How many mothers and babies are currently in a residential place (offering assessment or support), which you have commissioned?

A: In your local authority area

B: Outside your local authority area



Question 4:

How many parent and child foster care places do you currently have in your local authority area?

A: Number of places for a parent/mother

B: Number of places for babies



Question 5:

On the date you receive this FOI request, how many places for a parent/mother and baby/babies are currently vacant?



Question 6:

In the past 12 months, how many parents and babies from your area have been placed:

A: Within your local authority area?

B: Outside your local authority area?

1. The Local Authority (LA) does not have any in-house residential parent and child units or centers. The Local Authority does not hold information about how many private providers operate within Lincolnshire.

2.The LA does not have any in-house residential parent and child units or centers. The Local Authority does not hold information about how many private providers operate within Lincolnshire

3A: Inside local authority area - 0
3B: Outside local authority area 4

4A: Number of places for a parent/mother - one- in house
4B: Number of places for babies - 2 in house

5. 2 placements

6. In the past 12 months, how many parents and babies from your area have been placed: (In house none)
A: Within your local authority area? (0)
B: Outside your local authority area? 17