Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many looked after children in each local authority had (a) one, (b) two, (c) three, (d) four, (e) five, (f) six, (g) seven, (h) eight, (i) nine, (j) 10 or more, (k) 20 or more, (l) 30 or more, (m) 40 or more and (n) 50 or more placements in (i) the most recent year for which figures are available and (ii) while they were in care.

The requested information is not held in this format due to confidentiality with the small numbers involved.

The national data on the number of placements during the year (1, 2, 3 or more) is published in Table A3 and the numbers of placements in the care history is published in Table D5 of the ‘Children looked after, including adoption’ statistical first release. [1]

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