Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether any of her Department’s statistical publications other than the Serious Incident Notifications statistics annually report the number of (i) deaths and (ii) notified deaths of care leavers aged (a) 16 to 21 and (b) 22 to 24.

As well as being reported in Serious Incident Notification statistics, information on the number of care leaver deaths for care leavers aged 17-21 is also published in the annual statistical release, available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions/releases.

The latest information relating to the reporting year ending 31 March 2025 is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/methodology/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions#content-section-4-content-16.