Self-harm: Children in Care
(asked on 21st January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of children admitted to accident and emergency for attempting suicide were looked after children, in each year from 2018 to 2021.
This question was answered on 26th January 2022
The data requested is not available. Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), which records attendances in accident and emergency departments, does not record whether a person is a looked after child. In addition, HES data provides a count of attendances and not a count of individual people.