Care Proceedings
(asked on 28th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many care cases there have been in the English Family Courts in each of the last 10 years; and if she will make a statement.
This question was answered on 2nd November 2016
The table below shows the number of children involved in care applications in England, from 2011 – 2015, the latest year for which full data is available. Data on the number of care applications prior to 2011 is not held.
Year | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Total | 19, 035 | 19,185 | 18,283 | 18,630 | 11,813 |