Speeches

Tim Loughton – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tim Loughton on 2015-10-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of children have been placed in residential children’s homes outside their home local authority area in each of the last five years.

Edward Timpson

Information on the number of children accommodated in children’s homes inside and outside the Council boundary is published in table A2 of the statistical first release “Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers), year ending 31 March 2015” at:

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