Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children who left care in the most recent year for which figures are available had more than (a) three, (b) five, (c) 10, (d) 20, (e) 30, (f) 40 and (g) 50 placements while they were in care.

Information on the numbers of placements in the care history of children ceasing to be looked after in the year ending 31 March 2014 is published in Table D5 of the ‘Children looked after, including adoption’ statistical first release. This table sets out the total number of children who had between one and nine, or ten or more placements in their care history[1].

[1] www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2