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Children in Care: Young Offenders

Volume 486: debated on Thursday 15 January 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families with reference to the answer to the hon. Member for Stafford of 11 November 2008, Official Report, columns 1067-8W, on children in care: crime, what the estimated total cost of the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders has been since its inception. (240899)

The funding provided by the Government to NACRO to support their work on reducing offending by young people, including by looked after children, is summarised in the following table. This also includes details of funding provided to NACRO for a short-term project to produce guidance about setting up and managing effective remand foster care provision.

£000

2004-05

2005-06

2006-07

Total 2004-07

NACRO—core funding

140

100

75

Remand fostering project

50

Total

190

100

75

365