Care Leavers: Asylum

(asked on 7th March 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many care leavers who were aged 19, 20 or 21 in the years ending 31 March (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 10th March 2016

Data on the number of care leavers aged 19 to 21 years is published in table F1 of the statistical first release ‘Children looked after, including care leavers and adoption’[1].

Data is not published on the number of care leavers who were formerly unaccompanied asylum seeking children.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2014-to-2015

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