Looked after children


Recent statements in this category are shown below:

  • London Borough of Croydon (23 015 051)

    Statement Closed after initial enquiries Looked after children 08-Feb-2024

    Summary: We will not investigate Miss X’s complaint about children services’ actions as we are unlikely to achieve the outcome she seeks.

  • Stoke-on-Trent City Council (23 014 765)

    Statement Closed after initial enquiries Looked after children 05-Feb-2024

    Summary: We will not investigate Miss X’s complaint about the Council wrongly telling a hospital she had drunk alcohol during her pregnancy and disregarding her parental rights. There is another agency better placed than us to consider a complaint of data inaccuracy, and a medical diagnosis of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder is a medical matter for a hospital, not the Council. Any injustice would also be largely related to the effect of the diagnosis on Miss X’s right to care for her child. This is a matter where she has a right to go to court it would be reasonable to use to seek any variations she desires in arrangements already ordered by a court.

  • Kingston Upon Hull City Council (23 013 509)

    Statement Closed after initial enquiries Looked after children 30-Jan-2024

    Summary: We will not investigate this complaint about the actions of the complainant’s children’s social worker. This is because we cannot investigate matters which have been considered in court, and cannot achieve the outcome the complainant wants.

  • Darlington Borough Council (23 013 120)

    Statement Upheld Looked after children 24-Jan-2024

    Summary: We will not investigate Miss X’s complaint about children services’ actions. The Council has now agreed to follow the Children Act statutory complaints’ procedure.

  • London Borough of Bromley (23 014 101)

    Statement Closed after initial enquiries Looked after children 24-Jan-2024

    Summary: We will not investigate Ms X’s complaint that a social worker did not conduct a fact-finding meeting properly, but humiliated and denigrated her in front of others by aggressive questioning. The potential injustice caused would not be sufficient to warrant our involvement.

  • Warwickshire County Council (23 013 858)

    Statement Closed after initial enquiries Looked after children 18-Jan-2024

    Summary: We will not investigate Mr X’s complaint about his children’s care while the Council cared for them and whether an Adoption Order should be revoked. We cannot investigate issues and events which could have been or were part of Court proceedings.

  • Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council (23 013 068)

    Statement Upheld Looked after children 17-Jan-2024

    Summary: We will not investigate Miss X’s complaint about children services’ actions. The Council has now agreed to follow the Children Act statutory complaints’ procedure.

  • Cumberland Council (23 010 394)

    Statement Closed after initial enquiries Looked after children 11-Jan-2024

    Summary: We will not investigate this complaint about poor professional practice in Children’s Social Care. That is because further investigation will not lead to a different outcome and there is a different body best placed to consider it.

  • Cumberland Council (23 010 396)

    Statement Closed after initial enquiries Looked after children 11-Jan-2024

    Summary: We will not investigate this complaint about poor professional practice in Children’s Social Care. That is because further investigation will not lead to a different outcome and there is a different body best placed to consider it.

  • Dorset Council (23 012 479)

    Statement Closed after initial enquiries Looked after children 11-Jan-2024

    Summary: We will not investigate Mr X’s complaint about the Council’s actions following care proceedings because it is reasonable for him to take the matter to court.

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