Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average annual cost for a looked after child was in each local authority in the most recent year for which figures are available.
Information on the weekly unit costs of looked after children for each local authority is published on the Department for Education’s local authority interactive tool (LAIT).[1]
The figures can be found in the children’s services unit costs section of the tool.
[1] www.gov.uk/government/publications/local-authority-interactive-tool-lait