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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Children in Care (31 October 2016)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many of the looked after children who were cared for in a friends and family foster placement were placed there under a section 20 of the Children Act 1989 voluntary agreement (a) as at 31 March 2016 and (b) for each of the last 10 years.

Asked by:
Helen Hayes (Labour)

Answer

The number of children who were cared for in a friends and family foster placement in England at 31 March, and were looked after under a section 20 of the Children Act 1989 voluntary agreement, is shown in the table below1,2.

Year

number

2006

1,190

2007

990

2008

1,030

2009

1,220

2010

1,610

2011

1,760

2012

1,840

2013

1,830

2014

2,230

2015

2,510

2016

2,190

Source: SSDA903

  1. Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.
  2. Numbers reflect the legal status of the child at 31 March, although in majority of these cases, the legal status was unchanged from the start of the friends and family foster placement.

Answered by:
Edward Timpson (Conservative)
8 November 2016

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