Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer on 19 February to Question 221613 on Children in Care: Ethnic Groups, whether the figures provided include children in care under Section 20 Voluntary Arrangements.
The figures provided to question 221613 included all looked after legal statuses, excluding children looked after under an agreed series of short term arrangements, and so did include children in care under Section 20 Voluntary Arrangements.