Special Educational Needs: Children in Care
(asked on 20th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will provide an estimate of the number of looked-after children who have special educational needs, for each of the last five years for which information is available.
The Department publishes data on numbers of looked after children who have special educational needs, for children who have been looked after continuously for at least twelve months at 31 March. Figures for the last five years for which information is available have been summarised in the table below.
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
Children looked after1 with special educational needs2 | 20,740 | 22,030 | 21,890 | 21,070 | 20,220 |
1. Children looked after continuously for at least twelve months as at 31 March excluding children in respite care. Only children who have been matched to census data and are aged 4 or above (at 31 March) have been included.
2. Children matched to school census and AP census, with known SEN status.
The figures are from the 2012 to 2016 Outcomes for children looked after by LAs: 31 March statistical first releases, which are available at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-looked-after-children.