Please provide answers to the following questions under the FOI Act.

1.
a) For each of the years listed, please specify how many interim managers at Assistant Director level or above has the council employed in Children’s Services (directly or via an agency) : 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (to 1 March)
2017: 8
2018: 5
2019: 1
2020: 1
2021: 2
2022: 2

b) Please also specify how many interim managers at Assistant Director level or above has the council employed in Children’s Services (directly or via an agency) in total between the years 2017- 1 March 2022 inclusive?
11

2. For each of the years listed, please specify how much the council has spent on interim managers at Assistant Director Level or above in Children’s services (directly or via an agency): In 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (to 1 March)
2017: £297,059.25
2018: £228,433.32
2019: £256,024.40
2020: £28,614.50
2021: £34,801.08
2022: £44,202.08

3. In total, how much has the council been ordered to pay out in awards for human rights’ breaches to children, their parents, family members and carers who have been involved in family court proceedings in each of the following calendar years (not financial years): 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (to 1 March)
2017: £0
2018: £0
2019: £0
2020: £0
2021: £0
2022: £0

4. How many removals of newborns from their birth parents, within the first two weeks of birth, has the local authority done in each of the following calendar years: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 (to 1 March)
2012: 2
2013: 3
2014: 0
2015: 1
2016: 1
2017: 3
2018: 4
2019: 3
2020: 2
2021: 7
2022: 0