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Children in Care

Question for Department for Education

UIN 18030, tabled on 12 March 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an estimate of the number of children that are looked-after.

Answered on

19 March 2024

The latest information on the number of children looked after in England on 31 March 2023 can be found in the annual statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoptions’, which is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoptions.

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