Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked after children and care leavers aged 16-18 years old have been living in supported accommodation outside of their local authority area in each of the last five years, by local authority.
The number of looked-after children in supported accommodation outside of the local authority area since 2014 for each local authority is shown in the attached table. Supported accommodation has been taken to mean independent living (with or without formalised support) and semi-independent living accommodation not subject to children’s homes regulations.
This information is not available for care leavers as the location of a care leaver’s accommodation is not held centrally.