Social Development
With regard to her Department’s Child Care and Protection Programme:
(a) What is the number of children placed in foster care and reunified with their families since January 2021, for the latest date for which information is available, and (b) how many parents completed training sessions?
With regard to her Department’s Child Care and Protection Programme:
(a) What is the number of children placed in foster care and reunified with their families since January 2021, for the latest date for which information is available.
RESPONSE:
The number of the children placed in foster care and reunified since January 2021 to
August 2021 are as follows:
Breakdown per month | Number of Foster Care Placements | Number of Children Reunified |
January 2021 | 211 | 22 |
February 2021 | 144 | 13 |
March 2021 | 128 | 24 |
April 2021 | 224 | 11 |
May 2021 | 198 | 7 |
June 2021 | 195 | 16 |
July 2021 | 196 | 22 |
August 2021 | 327 | 24 |
Total | 1 623 | 139 |
(b) how many parents completed training sessions?
RESPONSE:
The number of parents that completed training since January 2021 to June 2021
is 825.
