Asylum: Children
(asked on 25th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many unaccompanied asylum-seeking children under 12 years of age have been accepted into foster care in the UK in the past 12 months.
This question was answered on 7th February 2017
In the year ending 31 March 2016, there were 50 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children under 12 years of age who were looked after in a foster placement in England and 1,560 between the ages of 12 to 18 years.
The Department for Education only holds the information for England. The devolved administrations hold the information for the other constituent countries.