Foster Care

(asked on 18th December 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are currently in foster care.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 21st December 2018

At 31 March 2018, there were 55,200 looked-after children in England in foster placements. Further information on the number of looked-after children by their placement is published in table A2 of the statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2017 to 2018’: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018.

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