Request
A
How many forced adoptions have there been in Jersey over the past ten years?
B
What were the reasons for the forced adoptions?
C
How many children have been rescued from child sex rings in Jersey?
D
How many children have been put into care outside of the island?
Response
A
We estimate that retrieving and extracting this data would exceed the cost limit specified in the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 (the Law). However, in the spirit of the Law we have collated data for the past five years.
In the last five years (2012 to October 2017) there were nine adoptions in Jersey that were contested in Court and consent was dispensed with.
B
The consent was dispensed with as the birth parents were not in agreement with the adoption. The parents of the children were not able to meet the children’s needs and keep them safe. The Court endorsed the care plan for adoption.
C
Neither the States of Jersey Police nor the Health and Social Services Department have any records of children being rescued from ‘child sex rings’ in Jersey within the past 10 years.
D
There are currently 23 children in care outside Jersey who are in the UK and France. These children are in specialist residential placements, specialist therapeutic foster placements or with family and friends carers.
Exemption applied
Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive
(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.
Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.
