Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to publish rates of re-entry to care rates in each local authority area.

In 2013, the Government published the ‘Looked-after children: improving permanence - data pack’. The pack can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/improving-permanence-for-looked-after-children-data-pack

This provides information on children who returned home in 2006 – 2007 and had re-entered care by 2012. The pack illustrates why publishing the rate of re-entry to care for each local authority alone could be misleading. We do not, therefore, have current plans to publish this data. We expect local authorities to be examining their own performance using their data alongside individual children’s case histories.