Foster Care
(asked on 27th November 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the average length of time that children have spent in a temporary foster placements in each month of the last five years.
This question was answered on 7th December 2020
The information requested is not held centrally. Short breaks for children can be provided by local authorities under either section 17 or section 20 of the Children Act (1989). Whilst information on children receiving services is reported in the children in need census, the detail of the specific service or support provided to the child is not collected.