Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to table A2 of the statistical release Information on looked after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2016-17, how many of the 8,830 looked-after children who were cared for in a friends and family foster placement on 31 March 2017 had also been in (a) an unrelated foster placement, (b) another family and friends care placement, (c) a children's home and (d) other provision for looked-after children.

For the years ending 31 March 2017 and 2018, the number of looked after children in a foster placement with friends or family who have also been in a foster placement; not with friends or family, a children’s home placement, or any other type of placement in the same period of care is shown in the table attached.