en who are the subject of statutory orders and living with their parents are open cases because a social worker should be visiting and statutory reviews must take place. Children in need who are also privately fostered should be included. However, being privately fostered does not automatically mean the child is a child in need. To be included, the privately fostered child must have been assessed to be in need and requiring children’s social care services in addition to receiving the required statutory visits because they are privately fostered. If a privately fostered child is only receiving the required statutory visits from children’s social care services, then the child is not included in the children in need census. 1.2.5 Disabled children Disabled children living with their parents and for whom it has been planned and agreed that they will have a series of short-term placements are open cases, because funding has been agreed and the arrangement will need to be reviewed. Only disabled children who have been assessed as requiring children’s social care services should be included in the collection, not those disabled children who receive mail outs (for example newsletters) only. If the disability register is shared with other agencies or does not imply any activity on behalf of children’s social care services, then these children’s cases should not be included in the collection purely on the basis of their names being on the register. The key issue for the census is whether the presence of the child’s name on the register triggers any activity by children’s social care services. 1.2.6 Children from another local authority A local authority (the service authority) may provide a service to a child on behalf of another authority (the assessing local authority). In this