Special Guardianship Orders
(asked on 16th June 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many special guardianship orders were made in each of the last five years for which data is available.
The following table extracted from the publicly available Family Court Statistics Quarterly figures sets out the number of special guardianship orders made in both public and private law cases for the last five years. These have remained relatively stable over that period.
Source: Family Court Statistics Quarterly: October to December 2021 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
Public | 3,738 | 3,865 | 3,856 | 3,522 | 3,822 |
Private | 1,187 | 1,113 | 1,167 | 887 | 925 |
Figures for 2022 are not currently available.