Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities in England spend more than £60,000 annually per child in total foster care costs.

136 local authorities spent less than £40,000 per child in total foster care services in 2012-13, and no authorities spent more than £60,000. This is based on total outturn expenditure on fostering services during the year ending 31 March 2013, divided by the total number of children looked after in a foster placement at 31 March 2013.

Information on the outturn weekly unit costs of fostering for each local authority is published on the Department’s local authority interactive tool.[1]

[1] www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-interactive-tool-lait