Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will provide a breakdown of the amount spent by local authorities on (a) foster care companies, (b) psychiatrists, (c) private social workers and (d) other third parties in the children’s social care sector in each of the last 12 months.

The department does not collect monthly children’s social care spend data from local authorities.

The department collects annual local authority children and young people’s services spend data (Section 251 LA and school expenditure) that covers a range of spend data across children’s and young people’s services. The latest data for the 2019-20 financial year is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure/2019-20.