Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of local authority children’s social care budgets spent on private providers by region in 2020-21.
The underlying data is published as part of the department’s statistical release ‘LA and school expenditure’, available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure/2020-21.
The proportion of local authority children’s services spending, which was spent on private provision by region for 2019/20 is listed below:
East Midlands | 29% |
East of England | 28% |
Inner London | 30% |
North East | 18% |
North West | 30% |
Outer London | 23% |
South East | 29% |
South West | 29% |
West Midlands | 31% |
Yorkshire and The Humber | 22% |
The proportion of local authority children’s services spending, which was spent on private provision by region for 2020/21 is listed below:
East Midlands | 30% |
East of England | 27% |
Inner London | 30% |
North East | 21% |
North West | 32% |
Outer London | 25% |
South East | 33% |
South West | 31% |
West Midlands | 32% |
Yorkshire and The Humber | 22% |
Local authorities’ spend on private provision is collected as part of the Section 251 outturn data collection. Data for the 2021/22 financial year will be published in December 2022.