Children in Care

(asked on 13th December 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the statistical release, Children looked after in England including adoptions, for the financial year 2020-21, how many of the 12,430 looked-after children who were cared for in a family and friends foster care placement on 31 March 2021 had also been in (a) an unrelated foster placement, (b) a children's home and (c) other provision for looked-after children.


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Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 16th December 2021

The information requested is is not held centrally in the format requested and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.

The latest figures on looked after children in family and friends fostering arrangements are published on the Explore Education Statistics platform in the statistical release Children looked after in England including adoption: 2020 to 2021 at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions/2021.

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