Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information his Department holds on the number of 16 and 17 year old children awaiting an in need assessment in 2017-18.

There were 2,960 children in need episodes as of 31 March 2018, where 16 year old and 17 year old children were awaiting an assessment.

Information on the number of all children in need episodes as of 31 March, where children were awaiting an assessment, is included in the statistical publication ‘Characteristics of children in need 2017 to 2018’, which is available at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2017-to-2018.