Children: Social Services

(asked on 16th May 2022) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 24th May 2022

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.

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