Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 1 March 2017 to Question 64985, on children in care, what information her Department holds on the number of looked-after children attending each (a) primary and (b) secondary school in England in the last 12 months.

The Department collects child-level data on looked after children in England, which is matched to the school census and attainment records in order to identify additional information on the child’s characteristics and educational outcomes. However, the Department does not routinely produce or publish information on looked after children at school level. The information on the numbers of looked after children in each local authority is published in the Children Looked After in England statistical release at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2015-to-2016 and the latest information on the attainment of looked after children is published is in the Outcomes for Children Looked After statistical release at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/outcomes-for-children-looked-after-by-las-31-march-2015.