Foster Care: Care Leavers

(asked on 4th December 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average length of time young people took part in the staying put programme was in each year since that programme was launched.


Answered by
Nadhim Zahawi Portrait
Nadhim Zahawi
This question was answered on 10th December 2018

The latest national information on the number of children who ceased to be looked-after in a foster placement on their 18th birthday who were eligible for care leaver support and were still living with their former foster carer (‘staying put’) at age 19 and 20 are published in table F2 of the statistical publication: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018.

The department has published similar experimental national statistics on those children who still live with their former foster carer at age 18 in table F4 of the same release.

These figures are also disaggregated at local authority level for 2018 in the underlying data tables that accompany this statistical release. Data at local authority level for earlier reporting years is available in the underlying data tables in previous publications for 2017 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017.

The figures for 2016 are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2015-to-2016.

The figures for 2015 are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2014-to-2015.

The figures for 2014 are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2

Information on the average length of time young people took part in the staying put programme is not collected.

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