Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children subject to (a) looked after and (b) leaving care plans are living in unregulated settings such as bed and breakfast accommodation and houses of multiple occupation.

The Department collects and publishes information on the types of placement/accommodation looked after children and care leavers are in. This information is available in the Statistical First Release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2015 to 2016’ at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2015-to-2016. Information on placements for children looked after at 31 March 2016 is contained in table A2 and information on accommodation of care leavers can be found in tables F1b and F1d.

Further details on the definitions used in these tables are available in the children looked after return guide for local authorities, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-looked-after-return-2016-to-2017-guide.