Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children have been placed in residential children's homes outside their home local authority area in each of the last five years.

Information on the number of children accommodated in children’s homes inside and outside the Council boundary is published in table A2 of the statistical first release “Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers), year ending 31 March 2015” at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2014-to-2015