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Foster Care

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's statistical release entitled Children looked after in England including adoptions, last updated 14 November 2024, how many children were looked after in (a) relative and (b) f

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
19 Nov 2024
Target answer date
21 Nov 2024
Answer
27 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 19 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to her Department's statistical release entitled Children looked after in England including adoptions, last updated 14 November 2024, how many children were looked after in (a) relative and (b) f

  2. 21 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 27 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    The latest figures on children looked after who were cared for in a relative or friend foster placement by age, gender and ethnicity and at local authority level are shown in the attached tables. The department does not hold the data broken down separatel...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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