Children in Care

(asked on 24th October 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked-after children were in children's homes (a) in borough and (b) out of borough during the year for each year since 2015.


Answered by
Michelle Donelan Portrait
Michelle Donelan
This question was answered on 29th October 2019

The latest figures on looked-after children by placement and placement location are published in Table A2 of the statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2017 to 2018’ at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018.

The statistics on looked-after children in 2018/2019 will be released in December 2019. The exact date of publication will be announced here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/announcements/looked-after-children-in-england-year-ending-31-march-2019.

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