Children in Care

(asked on 2nd July 2014) - View Source
Questioner
Andrew Griffiths Portrait
Andrew Griffiths
(Conservative - Burton)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) primary, other than small primary and (b) secondary schools in each local authority area had more than three per cent of pupils in care in the latest period for which figures are available.

Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 7th July 2014

The tables below show the number of primary and secondary schools with at least 3% of pupils who were looked after on the 31 March 2013. This has been presented by local authority. Schools with a headcount of fewer than 50 pupils have been removed from this analysis.

Local authority

Total number of primary schools[1]

Number of primary schools where more than 3.0 per cent of pupils are looked after children[2]

Cumbria

235

10

Lincolnshire

258

7

Kent

447

6

Lancashire

452

6

Nottinghamshire

278

6

East Riding of Yorkshire

121

4

Wirral

90

4

Wolverhampton

73

4

Blackburn with Darwen

54

3

Cornwall

213

3

Devon

275

3

Hampshire

422

3

Norfolk

320

3

Staffordshire

282

3

Wiltshire

190

3

Bury

63

2

Cheshire East

120

2

Dudley

78

2

Durham

217

2

East Sussex

151

2

Halton

50

2

Herefordshire

73

2

Kingston Upon Hull, City of

70

2

Leeds

218

2

North Tyneside

56

2

North Yorkshire

249

2

Northumberland

97

2

Shropshire

115

2

St. Helens

54

2

Sunderland

82

2

Warwickshire

190

2

West Berkshire

62

2

Worcestershire

177

2

Barnsley

78

1

Birmingham

300

1

Blackpool

29

1

Bolton

94

1

Bristol, City of

104

1

Bromley

74

1

Buckinghamshire

164

1

Calderdale

84

1

Cambridgeshire

201

1

Coventry

84

1

Dorset

129

1

Essex

452

1

Gateshead

67

1

Gloucestershire

225

1

Hertfordshire

386

1

Kirklees

145

1

Knowsley

50

1

Leicestershire

216

1

Liverpool

122

1

North Lincolnshire

63

1

Northamptonshire

248

1

Oldham

86

1

Rochdale

69

1

Salford

76

1

Sandwell

94

1

Solihull

62

1

South Tyneside

45

1

Southampton

60

1

Torbay

30

1

Trafford

67

1

Wigan

102

1

York

52

1

Local authority

Total number of secondary schools[3]

Number of secondary schools where more than 3 per cent of pupils are looked after children[4]

Bury

14

1

Lancashire

83

1

Lincolnshire

54

1

Luton

13

1

Northumberland

46

1

Staffordshire

69

1

Wirral

22

1

[1] Number of primary schools (including middle-deemed primary) with a pupil headcount of at least 50 (based on 2013 school census data).

[2] Number of primary schools (including middle-deemed primary), where at least 3.0% of pupils were looked after on 31 March 2013.

[3] Number of secondary schools (including middle-deemed secondary) with a pupil headcount of at least 50 (based on 2013 school census data).

[4] Number of secondary schools (including middle-deemed secondary), where at least 3.0% of pupils were looked after on 31 March 2013.

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