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.
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