Foster Care Statistics
Dear City of London Corporation,
1) In the financial year 2021/22 what was the outturn for provided foster care?
2) In the financial year 2021/22 what was the outturn for purchased foster care?
b) The average proportion of foster care placements in the financial year 2021/22, in percentage terms, that were purchased from independent agencies
3) What is the total number of looked after children?
4) The number of looked after children who are being accommodated via purchased fostering service,
b) The exact number of children in each of the contracts held by a purchased fostering service, specifying the agencies used.
5) The number of looked after children who are being fostered via the local authority provider
6) The number of looked after children who are placed outside of the local authority
7) The average number of registered Foster carers who receive a fee from the local authority provider between 14th December 2019 to 14th December 2022, broken down by years.
8) The number of foster carers de-registered from the local authority provider between 14th December 2019 to 14th December 2022, broken down by years.
Where dates are not specified please give the most up to date figure, specifying the date used.
Yours faithfully,
Joseph Durbidge
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Dear Joseph Durbidge
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST
Following receipt of your request for information on 6 March 2023 and our
acknowledgement of the same date, the City of London (CoL) responds as
follows:
1) In the financial year 2021/22 what was the outturn for provided foster
care? £0, see below at Q7
2) In the financial year 2021/22 what was the outturn for purchased foster
care? £392,600
b) The average proportion of foster care placements in the financial year
2021/22, in percentage terms, that were purchased from independent
agencies 100%
3) What is the total number of looked after children? 12 (YTD 02/2023)
4) The number of looked after children who are being accommodated via
purchased fostering service, 6 (YTD 02/2023)
b) The exact number of children in each of the contracts held by a
purchased fostering service, specifying the agencies used. Sunbeam
Fostering Agency x1
Greater London Fostering x1
National Fostering Agency x1
5) The number of looked after children who are being fostered via the
local authority provider 3 (YTD 02/2023)
6) The number of looked after children who are placed outside of the local
authority 12 (YTD 02/2023)
7) The average number of registered Foster carers who receive a fee from
the local authority provider between 14th December 2019 to 14th December
2022, broken down by years. None, the CoL do not have any foster carers.
8) The number of foster carers de-registered from the local authority
provider between 14th December 2019 to 14th December 2022, broken down by
years. – None, the CoL do not have any foster carers.
Please note that the City (the "Square Mile") has a resident population of
about 8,618* which includes approximately 736 children aged up to 19 years
old.
*Office of National Statistics December 2022
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