Education written question – answered at on 8 November 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many children were taken into care in England in the last full year for which figures were available; and how many of those children were from (a) single parent families and (b) families where the parents were married.
holding answer
There were 10,100 children who were taken into care(1) during the 12 months to
The information for children taken into care in the last 12 months is also published in table LAC1 of the Department's Statistical First Release, “Children Looked After by Local Authorities in England (including adoption and care leavers)—year ending
(1) Children taken into care are children who started to be looked after under a care order, police protection, emergency protection order or child assessment order.
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