Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities use Xantura and other predictive algorithm technologies in children’s social care; what evidence his Department is aware of to support the use of those technologies; and what the total cost to the public purse of those technologies was in the latest period for which data is available.
The information requested on which local authorities use Xantura or other predictive algorithm technologies in children’s social care or related expenditure on it is not held centrally.