Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many safeguarding referrals for young people living in supported or semi supported accommodation there have been in each year since 2009, by local authority.
The information requested on which safeguarding referrals were for young people living in supported or semi supported accommodation is not held centrally.
The number of children that were referred to children’s social services is published in the annual children in need statistical publication, we have provided a link to this which is available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-children-in-need.