(2) how many looked-after children are housed in (a) a local authority and (b) independent children’s home;
(3) how many children have been placed for adoption with an extended family member in each of the last five years;
(4) how many children were adopted in each local authority in each of the last five years;
(5) how many adoption placements were made with extended family members in each of the last five years;
(6) how many children born to children in care were (a) taken into care and (b) adopted in each of the last five years;
(7) how many children in care were born to mothers aged under 16 years, broken down by age of mother, in the last 12 months;
(8) how many children have been (a) in foster placements and (b) in children’s homes for over a year, broken down by age of child.
The information is as follows:
PQ 186700
Information on the average annual cost of housing a looked-after child in an independent children’s home is not collected centrally by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).
PQ 186701
Information on the number of children looked after that are housed in (a) a local authority and (b) independent children’s homes is not collected centrally by the DCSF.
PQ 186702
Information on the number of children who have been placed for adoption with an extended family member in each of the last five years is not collected centrally by the DCSF. However, table A3 of the Statistical First Release (SFR 27/2007) entitled ‘Children looked after in England (including adoption and care leavers) year ending 31 March 2007’ shows the number of children looked after by English local authorities (LAs), who were placed for adoption at 31 March for each year from 2003 to 2007. The SFR is located at http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000741/index.shtml and table A3 can be found within the first set of excel tables on the website.
PQ 186749
Information on the number of children who were adopted in each LA in each of the last five years is not collected centrally by the DCSF. However, the number of children looked after by English LAs, who were adopted in each LA in each of the years ending 31 March 2003 to 2007 can be found in table LAE1 at the same aforementioned link. Table LAE1 can be found within the third set of excel tables on the website.
PQ 186752
Information on the number of adoption placements that were made with extended family members in each of the last five years is not collected centrally by the DCSF. Please see the first aforementioned paragraph answering PQ 186702 for the most readily available data.
PQ 186808
Information on the number of children born to children in care who were (a) taken into care and (b) adopted in each of the last five years is not collected centrally by the DCSF.
PQ 186809
Information on the number of children in care that were born to mothers aged under 16 years, is not collected centrally by the DCSF.
PQ 186810
Information on the number of children looked after in English LAs who have been (a) in the same foster placement and (b) in the same children’s home for over a year, broken down by age at 31 March 2007 is shown in tables 1 and 2, as follows:
Number All children looked after for over one year in the same foster placement at 31 March 20071, 2 23,900 Age at 31 March 2007 (years) 23,900 1 630 2 530 3 570 4 610 5 670 6 790 7 920 8 1,100 9 1,300 10 1,600 11 1,800 12 2,100 13 2,100 14 2,300 15 2,200 16 2,400 17 2,100 18 —
Table 2: Children looked after for over one year in the same children’s home at 31 March 20071, 2, 3, EnglandNumberAll children looked after for over one yearin the same children’s home at 31 March 20071, 22,100Age at 31 March 2007 (years)2,10010203—405—6—7—81092010701180121401319014280154301650017340181019— 1 Source:SSDA903 return on children looked after.2 Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short-term placements.3 To ensure that no individual can be identified from statistical tables, we use conventions for the rounding and suppression of very small numbers. All numbers which appear in national tables have been rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 and to the nearest 10 otherwise. Numbers from 1 to 5 inclusive have been suppressed, being replaced in the table by a long dash ‘—’. It has been necessary to suppress other figures whenever it would be possible to calculate the value of a suppressed number by a means of simple arithmetic. The rule applied in these circumstances has been to suppress the next smallest data item provided its value is strictly less than 20.