Care Leavers
(asked on 4th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the variation between England's local authorities in the amount spent per person on the leaving care grant.
This question was answered on 10th December 2014
The Department for Education does not undertake an annual data collection exercise on local authority spend on the leaving care grant.
Based on informal feedback, the number of local authorities paying at least £2,000 leaving care grant to their care leavers has risen from 32 in 2012 to 97 at October 2013.