Question follow-through · 10763

Children in Care: Costs

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of capping the costs of residential care for looked after children.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 23 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 28 Oct 2024
Answer: 28 Oct 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

23 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of capping the costs of residential care for looked after children.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Oct 2024
Answer published
The department recognises that local authorities are facing rising costs to place children in care, with some private providers making excessive profits.This is unacceptable. The department is taking a range of actions to rebalance the market and eliminat...

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