Question follow-through · 19958
Children: Care Homes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of children being placed in residential children's homes more than 20 miles away from their family homes on their care.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 12 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of children being placed in residential children's homes more than 20 miles away from their family homes on their care.
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
The number of children looked after who were placed in secure homes and children’s homes over 20 miles from their family home on 31 March 2024 was 4,220.This is published in Table A4 of the ‘Children looked after including adoptions’ statistical release, ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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