Children in Care: Foster Care

(asked on 29th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked after children were cared for in a family and friends foster placement, broken down by local authority, as of 31 March 2021.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 2nd December 2021

The latest figures on looked after children who were cared for in a relative or friend foster placement at national and local authority level are shown in the attached tables.

National figures on relative or friend foster placements from 2018 to 2021 were also published in the table ‘CLA on 31 March by characteristics’ in the 'Children looked after in England including adoptions' statistical release at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions/2021. The department does not routinely publish this breakdown at local authority level. However, figures for all foster placements by local authority are published in the underlying data table ‘CLA on 31 March by characteristics – LA’ in the same statistical release.

The latest figures on all looked after children are published at the following link: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/2633329b-cbbf-448a-8c3d-39091a1c5aa5.

Full information on the former placement arrangements of children looked after who are in a relative or friend foster placement is not held in the form requested and would incur a disproportionate cost to provide this.

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