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 children are subject to a special guardianship order in England as of 16 June 2022.
The Government does not collect figures in relation to how many children are subject to a special guardianship order at any one time.
However, the following table extracted from the publicly available Family Court Statistics Quarterly figures provides details on the number of children involved in orders since 2017 until 2021. 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 | 5,758 | 5,920 | 5,834 | 5,234 | 5,858 |
Private | 1,581 | 1,501 | 1,543 | 1,192 | 1,254 |
No figures are available for 2022