05 December 2022
Your request and our response
1. The number of looked after children that the local authority has placed in accommodation within this borough, and the number for each of the last five years.
Please see the attached spreadsheet.
2. The number of looked after children that this local authority has placed in accommodation out of borough, what Local Authority they were placed in, and the number in each Local authority for each of the last five years.
Please see the attached spreadsheet.
3. The number of people this local authority has placed in temporary accommodation in the borough, and the number for each of the last five years.
Please see the attached spreadsheet and note that figures reported refer to household numbers and not people.
4. The number of people this local authority has placed in temporary accommodation in other local authorities, what Local Authority they were placed in, and the number in each borough for each of the last five years.
Please see the attached spreadsheet and note that figures reported refer to household numbers and not people.
5. The number of children in a pupil referral unit or in alternative provision that are currently in provisions in the local authority area, and the number for each of the last five years.
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Pupil Numbers |
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2021/22 to date |
23 |
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2020/21 |
36 |
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2019/20 |
34 |
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2018/19 |
87 |
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2017/18 |
123 |
6. The number of children in a pupil referral unit or in alternative provision that are currently placed in provisions out of borough and what local authorities are they placed in, and the number in each local authority for each of the last five years.
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Pupil Numbers |
Borough |
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2021/22 to date |
20 |
Merton |
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2020/21 |
29 |
Merton |
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2019/20 |
19 |
Merton |
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2018/19 |
24 |
Merton |
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2017/18 |
12 |
Merton |
7. The number of unaccompanied asylum seekers that are currently in this local authority area, and the number for each of the last five years.
Please see the attached spreadsheet.
8. The number of unaccompanied asylum seekers that are currently at a school out of this borough, if so which local authority area they were placed and the number for each of the last five years.
Lambeth Council is not able to provide all the numbers for the last 5 years as this is a fluid matter.
Please see current figures below:
UASCs in an education provision outside of Lambeth: 12
At placements in: Enfield, Croydon, Ealing, Southwark, Bromley, Redbridge, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Lewisham
8. The number of unaccompanied asylum seekers that are currently at a school out of this borough, if so which local authority area they were placed and the number for each of the last five years.
I can confirm that we have reviewed your request but consider that to comply with part of the request would exceed the cost/time limit specified by s12 FOIA.
Section 12 (cost of compliance exceeds the appropriate limit)
12 (1) Section 1(1) does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying with the request would exceed the appropriate limit.
The Appropriate Limit applies to costs/time the Council reasonably expects to use in carrying out the following activities to comply with your request:
- Determine whether the information is held
- Locating the information or documents containing the information
- Retrieving such information or documents
- Extracting the information from the document
In this instance, the process of extracting the information from the document exceeds the Appropriate Limit as provided by The Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004.
The Appropriate Limit is currently set at £450 which is the equivalent to 18 hours of work at £25 per hour. It is estimated that to retrieve the information for this request would exceed 18 hours of work. The process of retrieving and extracting the data is therefore likely to exceed the Appropriate Limit.
In accordance with Section 17 FOIA this letter represents a Refusal Notice for this request.