Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have gone missing from (a) residential children's homes and (b) foster care in each of the last five years.
The number of children who went missing from children’s homes and foster placements in the year ending 31 March 2013 is published in the ‘Children’s Homes Data Pack’[1]. Analysis for other years has not been undertaken and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
[1] www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-homes-data-pack