Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government what proportion of care leavers between the ages of 18 to 21 (1) die, (2) die by suicide, (3) have a mental health disorder, (4) have been sexually abused, and (5) are out of education, training or employment.

Information on the number of care leavers is submitted to the department on an annual basis and is published in our statistical release, which can be found here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions.

The department publishes figures on the number of care leavers who have died in this age range in the methodology document accompanying this statistical release in the section ‘Data Quality and Uses’ (‘Care leavers aged 17, 18, 19, 20 or 21 years’). Information for 2022 to 2024 can be found in the attached table 1.

The department does not hold information centrally on the cause of death, the mental health of the care leaver or any details of past history of sexual abuse.

The total number of 18 to 21-year-old care leavers and the number and proportion of care leavers who are not in education, training and employment is shown in table 2.