Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the long-term (a) education, (b) employment, (c) training, (d) housing and (e) health outcomes of children who are classified as in need at the age of (a) 16 and (b) 17.

On 16 March 2018, the government published data and analysis as part of the Department for Education’s Children in Need Review. This included the finding that Children in Need are more likely than other children to become a young adult who is not in education, employment or training three years after completing key stage 4.

The department does not currently hold data on other long-term outcomes of Children in Need. The department’s data publication will access long-term outcomes analysis to better understand child journeys and lifetime outcomes, which includes the feasibility of matching the Department for Education’s Children in Need data with outcomes data from other government policy areas.