Children in Care: Death

(asked on 13th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 8 November 2022 to Question 65894 on Children in Care: Death, how many children in care aged 16 and 17 died while they were living in (a) semi-independent or (b) independent accommodation between April 2021 and March 2022.


Answered by
Claire Coutinho Portrait
Claire Coutinho
Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero
This question was answered on 19th December 2022

Every death of a vulnerable child or young person is a tragedy, and the following information is sensitive in nature. There were between 1 and 5 looked-after children who died while living in semi-independent or independent accommodation between April 2021 and March 2022. The department is not able to provide an exact figure to protect confidentiality.

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