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Outturn weekly expenditure £ per child - Looked After Children (3435) Metric type
- Help text
- By definition a child must be provided with accommodation for a continuous period of more than 24 hours before that child can be defined as being a Looked After Child (LAC).
Funding line includes: Special guardianship support - financial support paid to Special Guardianship families under the Special Guardianship Regulations 2005 and other staff and overhead costs associated with Special Guardianship Orders; Other children in looked after services - support to looked after young people; Short breaks (respite) for looked after disabled children; Children placed with family and friends - Where looked after children do not live with their birth parents, it is not uncommon for them to be placed with family and friend foster carers; Education of looked after children - This includes expenditure on the services provided to promote the education of the children looked after by your local authority; Leaving care support services - This Includes local authority's ""leaving care"" support services functions under the Children (Leaving Care) Act 2000.
(x/y)/365 * 7 where:
x = Total funding on Looked after children recorded on either outturn (OT) or S251 financial statement
y = Total number of Looked after children as at 31 March
Result is rounded to nearest £5.
- Modified
- 21 Dec 2022
- Data last updated
- 16 Feb 2024
- Short label
- Outturn weekly expenditure £ per child - Looked After Children
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- GBP per week per child
- Dataset
- Children and young people spend (weekly expenditure)
- Collection
- LAIT: Children's Service Finance
- Source
- Department for Education
- is found in the following lists
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