Care Leavers: Asylum
(asked on 2nd February 2016) - View SourceQuestioner
Stuart C McDonald
(Scottish National Party - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many care leavers in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015 who were aged 19, 20 or 21 in 2013 and 2014 and housed in accommodation considered (i) suitable and (ii) unsuitable were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children looked after by the local authority.
Information on care leavers in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015, who were aged 19, 20 and 21 in 2013 and 2014 is not available. However, the information for care leavers aged 19, 20, or 21 in 2014 and 2015 is shown in the tables below:
Accommodation type2 | All care leavers aged 19, 20 or 21 | Of which, number that were former unaccompanied asylum seeking children¹ | ||
2014 | 2015 | 2014 | 2015 | |
Suitable | 20,570 | 21,010 | 240 | 550 |
Unsuitable | 1,660 | 1,840 | 10 | 40 |
Source: SSDA903
All care leavers aged 19, 20 or 21 with whom the local authority were in touch | Of which, number that were former unaccompanied asylum seeking children¹ | ||
2014 | 2015 | 2014 | 2015 |
21,980 | 22,520 | 260 | 590 |
Source: SSDA903
Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.
This includes young people who were unaccompanied asylum seeking children in their final period of care.
Suitability of accommodation is not recorded where the young person has gone abroad, been deported or where their residence is not known.