Secure Accommodation
(asked on 28th February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many places were available in secure children's homes in each of the last 10 years; and what the annual average occupancy rates have been in that same period.
The number of places that were available in secure children’s homes in each of the last 10 years and the occupancy rates, at 31 March of each year, are shown in the table below.
Numbers of approved places and children accommodated in secure children's homes as at 31 March
Year: 2008 to 2017
Coverage: England and Wales
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At 31 March | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
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Number of secure children's homes | 19 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 15 |
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Places approved1 |
| 342 | 338 | 311 | 312 | 300 | 296 | 298 | 254 | 254 | 254 |
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Number of places available2 |
| 331 | 333 | 291 | 291 | 288 | 286 | 283 | 245 | 245 | 227 |
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Children accommodated | 278 | 290 | 258 | 221 | 239 | 206 | 229 | 205 | 210 | 203 |
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Occupancy | 81 | 86 | 83 | 71 | 80 | 70 | 77 | 81 | 83 | 80 |
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Source: DfE SA1 Survey |
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(1) Number of places in secure children’s homes as approved by the Secretary of State at 31 March. | ||||||||||||
(2) Number of places that were in use or available for use at 31 March (excluding any approved places that are out of service, e.g. undergoing development work). This number does not indicate the number of vacant places. | ||||||||||||
(3) Occupancy rates are based on the number of children accommodated at 31 March in relation to the number of places approved by the Secretary of State, and are displayed to the nearest whole number. | ||||||||||||
This information was published in the statistical first releases available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-secure-children-s-homes.