Stuart C. McDonald – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stuart C. McDonald on 2016-02-01.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many care leavers in full or part-time higher education aged between 19 and 21 in (a) 2014 and (b) 2015 were former unaccompanied asylum seeking children looked after by the local authority.
Edward Timpson
The information requested is shown in the table below. This information is for England only.
|
Care leaver activity [2] |
Number of former unaccompanied asylum seeking children [1] |
|
|
2014 |
2015 |
|
|
Higher education |
20 |
40 |
|
Education other than higher education |
100 |
260 |
|
Training or employment |
40 |
130 |
Source: SSDA903
Information on the activity of all care leavers in England has been published in tables F1 of the Statistical First Release on looked after children[3].
[1] This includes young people who were unaccompanied asylum seeking children in their final period of care.
[2] Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.
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