Foster Care
(asked on 21st October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in local authority care are awaiting placement with foster parents.
This question was answered on 31st October 2016
The Department for Education does not collect this information. If any children are awaiting placement with foster carers, that information will be kept at local authority level. As at March 2015 there were 73,845 approved foster carers in England.