Children: Care Homes
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to local authorities is of housing children in privately run children's homes.
Answered by Janet Daby
The department publishes data on local authority expenditure on looked after children. This data is published here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/la-and-school-expenditure#explore-data-and-files.
The department does not hold data on the cost to local authorities of housing children in privately run children’s homes. In total, local authorities spent £8.1 billion on looked after children in 2023/24, including £3.1 billion on residential care.
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