Care Leavers: Asylum

(asked on 1st February 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Stuart C McDonald Portrait
Stuart C McDonald
(Scottish National Party - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many care leavers in full or part-time higher education aged between 19 and 21 in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015 were former unaccompanied asylum seeking children looked after by the local authority.

Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 10th February 2016

The information requested is shown in the table below. This information is for England only.

Care leaver activity [2]

Number of former unaccompanied asylum seeking children [1]

2014

2015

Higher education

20

40

Education other than higher education

100

260

Training or employment

40

130

Source: SSDA903

Information on the activity of all care leavers in England has been published in tables F1 of the Statistical First Release on looked after children[3].

[1] This includes young people who were unaccompanied asylum seeking children in their final period of care.

[2] Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.

[3] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2014-to-2015

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