Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of looked after children in children's homes in each year since 2015.

The number of looked after children by placement since 2015 are published in Table A2 of the statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption’, available here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018.