Speeches

Stuart C. McDonald – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Stuart C. McDonald on 2016-03-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many care leavers who were aged 19, 20 or 21 in the years ending 31 March (a) 2013, (b) 2014 and (c) 2015 were former unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

Edward Timpson

Data on the number of care leavers aged 19 to 21 years is published in table F1 of the statistical first release ‘Children looked after, including care leavers and adoption’[1].

Data is not published on the number of care leavers who were formerly unaccompanied asylum seeking children.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2014-to-2015