1. Are child social services biased against domestic abuse victims/ survivors when their name is mentioned at a future date? do child social services accept that people can change once away from the abuse?
Not answerable under FOI as either not reportable or seeking an ‘opinion’ which is not the purpose of FOI.

2. Is there any evidence, reports or statistics in regards to how many victims of child/domestic abuse end up committing suicide due to victim-blaming / shaming, or re-victimisation by child social services, Cafcass or ex-partners allegations? information, statistics from per year from 2010 either calendar or financial year is acceptable. If there is no evidence, reports etc is this an area child social services or any other governmental body are looking into?
No information held / not reportable.

3. Do child social services investigate serial complainers for harassment? For example the same person or family continually call child social services raising concerns over a particular child/ren or family?
Where the Council is receiving unreasonably persistent contact from an individual, we will refer to – and take action in accordance with – the Unreasonably Persistent Complaints Policy. We will not investigate the individual. We will assess each case on its own merit and take the appropriate actions based on whether the individual is considered unreasonably persistent. A copy of the policy document can be found at the following link: https://www.wokingham.gov.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=548139

4. Since 2010 how many times have child social services threatened someone with a gagging order and how many times have they actually gone to court to obtain a gagging order against an individual, family or company? these statistics would be per calendar or financial year.
Not answerable under FOI as either not reportable or seeking an ‘opinion’ which is not the purpose of FOI.

5. Since 2010 how many anonymous complaints / allegations of abuse have child social services investigated per year by either calendar or financial year?
Children’s Services have a statutory social care complaints process. This would deal with complaints about the service being provided on behalf of a child, however, any complaints about abuse would be passed on to children’s social care to investigate. None of our complaint investigations would be based on an anonymous report, given that there are restrictions as to who can present a complaint under the statutory process and we need to know who is presenting the complaint to us.

Number of contacts and referrals received from anonymous:
2010: Not available.
2011: Not available.
2012: Not available.
2013: Not available.
2014: 77
2015: 100
2016: 133
2017: 121
2018: 198
2019: 253
2020: 244
2021 (till Oct 2021): 208

Anonymous complaints / allegations of abuse that child social services investigated:
2010: Not available.
2011: Not available.
2012: Not available.
2013: Not available.
2014: Not available.
2015: Not available.
2016: Not available.
2017: Not available.
2018: 50
2019: 29
2020: 32
2021 (till Oct 2021): 19

6. Since 2010 how many children have been removed from their homes where child social services have used parental mental health as a reason. These statistics if available can be per calendar or financial year.
We are not able to report on this criteria and would manually have to review all files to see if this reason is mentioned in the file. This would exceed the appropriate limit and therefore are applying Section 12 exemption.

7. How do child social services or Cafcass determine which parent a child loves the most for any family court cases. Is there any paperwork, evidence, reports to prove or disprove this question.
Not answerable under FOI as either not reportable or seeking an ‘opinion’ which is not the purpose of FOI.

8. What is child social services standing on the effects of being a single child as apposed to living in a household with another child no matter if that child is related or not? Do they even have an opinion on this subject? Is there any reports or documentation to prove or disprove which is better for the child?
Not answerable under FOI as either not reportable or seeking an ‘opinion’ which is not the purpose of FOI.

9. How often if at all do child social services ignore or use a previous family court judgment against the parent in future involvement? Does this only happen when the family court have ruled someone is guilty of an incident or does it also happen when someone is found innocent in family court? I don't believe there will be statistics on this question but there may be reports or regulations that child social services adhere to that would cover this question.
Not answerable under FOI as either not reportable or seeking an ‘opinion’ which is not the purpose of FOI.

10. Under what circumstance (if this happens) do child social services admit sharing or stating misinformation about a parent and what can the parent do to ensure this does not happen again in the future?
No information held. 'Mis-information' can be misleading as parents may not agree with a professional opinion or information shared is what is held but could be out of date. The Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR have Rights for individuals in which they can request for information to be corrected if not accurate, deleted, and/or no longer processed. These rights aren't absolute and the Council would have a calendar month to consider the request and either action as requested or issue a refusal notice with reasons for refusal.