january 2012 appendix a: independent reviewing service report to corporate parenting cabinet...
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The Independent Reviewing Service in Bridgend is made up of 6 full time equivalent IROs The Guidance requires IROs to be experienced social workers at team manager level The Independent Reviewing Service in Bridgend has more than 170 years total experienceTRANSCRIPT
January 2012
Appendix A: Independent Reviewing Service Report to Corporate Parenting Cabinet
Committee
The Independent Reviewing Officers Guidance Wales (WAG 2006) gives IROs the duty to ‘monitor’ the responsible authority's performance in relation to looked after children and young peopleIROs are expected to ‘improve care planning and decision making, and make an important contribution to the consistency of the of the responsible authority's approach
The Independent Reviewing Service in Bridgend is made up of 6 full time equivalent IROs
The Guidance requires IROs to be experienced social workers at team manager level
The Independent Reviewing Service in Bridgend has more than 170 years total experience
Most IROs have been team managers and within the team there is experience of working in different Welsh and English authorities and both independent and voluntary sectors
IROs Chair Child Protection Conferences under the All Wales Child Protection Procedures and LAC Reviews under the IRO Guidance (Wales)
IRO Team - Bridgend
Safeguarding Manager
Independent Reviewing
Service Manager
Independent Reviewing
OfficerFTE
Independent Reviewing
OfficerFTE
Independent Reviewing
OfficerFTE
Independent Reviewing
OfficerFTE
Independent Reviewing
OfficerFTE
Independent Reviewing
OfficerFTE
Number of Looked After Children in comparison to the pervious two quarters
No of LAC Cases Qtr Ending 30.06.2010 - 30.09.2011
270
280
290
300
310
320
330
340
350
30.06.2010 30.09.2010 31.12.2010 31.03.2011 30.06.2011 30.09.2011
Qtr Ending
No o
f LAC
cas
es
Legal Status of Emergency LAC Admissions 01.07.11 – 30.09.11
Legal Status of Emergency Admissions 01/07/2011-30/09/2011
13%
87%
PPO S20
Legal Status of Planned Admissions 01.07.11 – 30.09.11
Legal Status of Planned Admissions 01/07/2011- 30/09/2011
58%
42%
ICO S20
Children who became looked after – analysis of age
BLA by Age 01/04/2010-30/09/2011
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
0-5 Years 6-10 Years 11-15 Years 16+ Years
Age Group
No
of C
hild
ren
01/04/2010-30/06/2010 01/07/2010-30/09/2010 01/10/2010-31/12/2010 01/01/2011-31/03/2011
01/04/2011-30/06/2011 01/07/2011-30/09/2011
LAC population by Age
% Breakdown of LAC Population by Age @ 30/09/2011
31%
25%
33%
11%
0-5 Years 6-10 Years 11-15 Years 16+ Years
LAC population by Gender
% Breakdown of LAC Population by Gender @ 30/09/2011
44%
56%
Female Male
Period of Time for Children being Looked After
Period of Time Looked After for LAC Population @ 30.09.2011
29%
49%
19%
3%
0%
<1 Year 1-5 Years 6-10 Years 11-15 Years 16+ Years
Future Data
Care Plan TypeCease LAC reasonAnalysis of BLA circumstances