Looked after children placed in placement settings - Find a freedom of information request

1.   For each of the previous three years - 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022 - how many Looked After Children, for whom your local authority has corporate parenting

responsibilities, were placed within and outside of the local authority area in:

 

a.   Any type of children's social care placement;

b.   Foster care placements;

c.   Children's home placements;

d.   Semi-supported placements.

 

2.   For each of the three previous years - 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022 - what was the total combined cost to your local authority of:

 

a.   All children's social care placements;

b.   All foster care placements;

c.   All children's home placements;

d.   All semi-supported placements.

 

3.  For each of the three previous years - 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022 - what was the total combined cost to your local authority of placements within the local authority

area of:

 

a.   All children's social care placements;

b.   All foster care placements;

c.   All children's home placements;

d.   All semi-supported placements.

 

4.   For each of the three previous years - 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022 - what was the total combined cost to your local authority of placements outside of the local authority

area of:

 

a.  All children's social care placements;

b.   All foster care placements;

c.   All children's home placements;

d.   All semi-supported placements.

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