Foster Care: Care Leavers

(asked on 27th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in care are currently subject to Staying Put arrangements in each local authority area.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 1st February 2016

Local authority

Young people who ceased to be looked after in a foster placement on their 18th birthday during the year ending 31 March 2015, who are eligible for care leaver support

Number remaining with their former foster carers 3 months after their 18th birthday

Barking & Dagenham

10

5

Barnet

20

10

Barnsley

15

10

Bath & NE Somerset

10

10

Bedford Borough

10

10

Bexley

10

x

Birmingham

50

35

Blackburn with Darwin

10

x

Blackpool

10

5

Bolton

20

20

Bournemouth

15

x

Bracknell Forest

5

x

Bradford

20

20

Brent

25

15

Brighton & Hove

35

20

Bristol

50

30

Bromley

10

10

Buckinghamshire

x

x

Bury

10

10

Calderdale

10

5

Cambridgeshire

10

x

Camden

15

15

Central Bedfordshire

10

5

Cheshire East

15

10

Cheshire West and Chester

5

x

City of London

x

0

Cornwall

20

10

Coventry

25

15

Croydon

100

20

Cumbria

20

15

Darlington

5

x

Derby

10

x

Derbyshire

75

10

Devon

40

10

Doncaster

10

10

Dorset

15

15

Dudley

15

15

Durham

15

10

Ealing

15

10

East Riding of Yorkshire

15

10

East Sussex

20

20

Enfield

50

10

Essex

65

25

Gateshead

15

10

Gloucestershire

70

0

Greenwich

25

20

Hackney

10

5

Halton

x

x

Hammersmith & Fulham

15

10

Hampshire

60

35

Haringey

20

x

Harrow

5

x

Hartlepool

15

10

Havering

10

10

Herefordshire

35

0

Hertfordshire

65

10

Hillingdon

25

10

Hounslow

25

10

Isle of Wight

10

x

Isles of Scilly

0

0

Islington

25

20

Kensington & Chelsea

5

5

Kent

60

15

Kingston upon Hull

15

10

Kingston upon Thames

x

x

Kirklees

10

10

Knowsley

25

10

Lambeth

95

x

Lancashire

55

25

Leeds

45

35

Leicester City

15

0

Leicestershire

10

5

Lewisham

30

15

Lincolnshire

20

20

Liverpool

85

20

Luton

15

10

Manchester

55

35

Medway

10

10

Merton

40

10

Middlesbrough

15

15

Milton Keynes

15

10

NE Lincolnshire

5

x

Newcastle upon Tyne

80

10

Newham

30

20

Norfolk

45

35

North Lincolnshire

x

x

North Somerset

5

x

North Tyneside

10

10

North Yorkshire

10

10

Northamptonshire

20

20

Northumberland

10

x

Nottingham City

15

10

Nottinghamshire

30

20

Oldham

5

x

Oxfordshire

10

10

Peterborough

15

x

Plymouth

20

20

Poole

x

x

Portsmouth

5

x

Reading

10

10

Redbridge

15

5

Redcar & Cleveland

5

5

Richmond upon Thames

10

5

Rochdale

15

5

Rotherham

15

x

Rutland

5

x

Salford

10

5

Sandwell

20

10

Sefton

15

15

Sheffield

20

15

Shropshire

x

x

Slough

x

x

Solihull

15

5

Somerset

20

15

South Gloucestershire

15

10

South Tyneside

25

10

Southampton

20

10

Southend

30

15

Southwark

50

35

St Helens

5

x

Staffordshire

25

15

Stockport

25

15

Stockton on Tees

10

x

Stoke

20

5

Suffolk

15

10

Sunderland

10

x

Surrey

45

40

Sutton

20

x

Swindon

20

10

Tameside

10

5

Telford & Wrekin

10

5

Thurrock

10

5

Torbay

20

5

Tower Hamlets

20

15*

Trafford

30

5

Wakefield

10

10

Walsall

50

10

Waltham Forest

10

5

Wandsworth

5

0

Warrington

10

x

Warwickshire

30

10

West Berkshire

20

x

West Sussex

30

20

Westminster

20

15

Wigan

10

5

Wiltshire

10

5

Windsor & Maidenhead

x

x

Wirral

25

15

Wokingham

10

x

Wolverhampton

15

10

Worcestershire

30

15

York

15

15

England

3,230

1,560

1. England total has been rounded to the nearest 10. Other numbers have been rounded to the nearest 5.

x. Figures not shown in order to protect confidentiality.

*Since the publication of PQ 24560, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets has notified the Department of a correction to their figure for the ‘Number remaining with their former foster carers 3 months after their 18th birthday’. Tower Hamlets submitted data stating this figure as 0, when it should have been 15 (rounded).

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