Children in Care

(asked on 16th July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in care have been placed in children's homes outside their local authority area in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 21st July 2015

The number of children who have been placed in children’s homes outside their local authority area in each of the last five years, 2010 to 2014, is shown in the table below:

Year

Number of children accommodated in children homes outside council boundary at 31 March

2010

2,400

2011

2,350

2012

2,390

2013

2,540

2014

2,730

This information is published in table A3 of the statistical first release “Children looked after in England including adoption”, which is available online at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2

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