Secure Accommodation
(asked on )
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the annual cost of transporting children from secure children's homes in London and the South East to elsewhere in the UK.
This question was answered on 19th March 2014
The financial responsibility for transporting welfare young people to and from secure children's homes is a matter for the placing local authority.
The financial responsibility for transporting justice young people to and from secure children's homes is a matter for the Youth Justice Board (YJB).