National table showing placement information for children looked after on 31 March.

Children looked after placement locality on 31 March, in England, 2015-2024

National table showing information on distance from home for children looked after on 31 March.

Children looked after distance locality on 31 March, in England, 2015-2024

National table showing average distance for children looked after on 31 March.

Children looked after average placement distances 2015 to 2024

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Children looked after in England on 31 March each year, placed inside or outside the LA boundary.

Placement locality for CLA

Children looked after in England on 31 March each year who are placed less than 20 miles, over 20 miles from their home address or where the distance was not known or recorded.

Placement distance for CLA

Children looked after in England on 31 March each year, by placement distance groupings.

Alternative placement distance groupings for CLA

Children looked after in England on 31 March each year, by placement distance locality (inside or outside the LA boundary, and distance from home address).

Placement distance locality for CLA

The average (median) distance from home for all children looked after, children looked after inside the LA boundary and children looked after outside the LA boundary.

Median distance for CLA placement locality

The number of children looked after who are placed over 20 miles from home by the number of placement moves during the year.

CLA placement moves by distance

The average distances of placement moves during the year for all children looked after at 31 March.

CLA placement moves by average distance

Placement type for children looked after placed inside or outside the LA boundary on 31 March each year.

Placement type for CLA outside LA boundary

Children looked after on 31 March each year. by placement type and whether they're located inside or outside the LA boundary.

CLA placed outside the LA boundary by placement type

The median distance of each placement type for children looked after in England on 31 March each year.

Median distance for CLA placement types

Children looked after in England on 31 March each year, by distance locality and placement type.

Types of placement for CLA by distance locality

Children looked after by foster provider and type in England on 31 March each year, by placement distance.

Fostering providers by placement distance for CLA

The median distance of each fostering provider and type for children looked after in England on 31 March each year.

Median distance for fostering providers and fostering type

Children looked after on 31 March each year, by distance locality and gender.

CLA by placement distance locality and by gender

Children looked after on 31 March each year, by distance locality and age.

CLA by placement distance locality and by age

Children looked after on 31 March each year, by distance locality and ethnicity.

CLA by placement distance locality and by ethnicity

Children looked after on 31 March each year, by distance locality and SDQ score.

CLA by placement distance locality and by SDQ

Children looked after on 31 March each year, by distance locality and SEN provision.

CLA by placement locality and by SEN

Children looked after on 31 March each year who were unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, and their placement locality.

UASC status and locality

Children looked after on 31 March 2024 who were unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, by placement type and distance locality.

UASC by placement type and locality

Children looked after on 31 March each year who were placed a not known or not recorded distance from home, broken down by their unaccompanied asylum-seeking children status.

UASC distance where distance is not known or not recorded

Children looked after on 31 March 2024 placed outside the local authority boundary and over 20 miles from home, by the responsible local authority.

CLA by placement distance locality and by LA

Children looked after on 31 March 2024 by local authority, broken down by whether they remain inside or outside the local authority boundary. The local authority is then categorised as an in-placer or out-placer.

Number of CLA placed inside or outside the LA boundary, by LA

Children looked after on 31 March 2024 placed outside their own local authority, outside neighbouring local authorities and over 20 miles from home, by placement type, including average distance placed.

CLA placed outside neighbouring LAs by placement type

The placement region for children looked after who are placed in foster care with other foster carers and outside of the neighbouring LAs, by the region of their home address.

CLA placed outside neighbouring LAs in foster care by origin

Children looked after who are placed in foster care with other foster carers and outside of the neighbouring LAs, by the destination of their placement.

CLA placed outside neighbouring LAs in foster care by destination

The placement region for children looked after who are placed in children's homes and outside of the neighbouring LAs, by the region of their home address.

CLA placed outside neighbouring LAs in children's homes by origin

Children looked after who are placed in children's homes and outside of the neighbouring LAs, by the destination of their placement.

CLA placed outside neighbouring LAs in children's homes by destination

The reason for a new episode of care for children looked after who entered care during 2015-16 (up until 2023-24), who had at least one placement outside the LA boundary in their period of care.

Journey - reason for new episode

For children looked after who entered care during 2015-16 (up until 2023-24), the time between entering care and moving into their first outside the LA boundary placement.

Journey - duration

For children looked after who entered care during 2015-16 (up until 2023-24), the day of the week they moved into their first outside the local boundary placement.

Journey - day of the week

Placement type for children looked after by age, gender and ethnicity demographics at 31 March 2024.

Placement type by child characteristics

Placement type for children looked after at 31 March 2024 by SEN provision.

Placement type by special educational needs (SEN) status

Including children in need and child protection, children looked after and social work workforce statistics

Children's social care

Including Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

COVID-19

Including not in education, employment or training (NEET) statistics

Destination of pupils and students

Including early years foundation stage profile and early years surveys statistics

Early years

Including local authority (LA) and student loan statistics

Finance and funding

Including advanced learner loan, benefit claimant and apprenticeship and traineeship statistics

Further education

Including university graduate employment, graduate labour market and participation statistics

Higher education

Labour market and skills

Including absence, application and offers, capacity, exclusion and special educational needs (SEN) statistics

Pupils and schools

School and college outcomes and performance

Including initial teacher training (ITT) statistics

Teachers and school workforce

Including summarised expenditure, post-compulsory education, qualification and school statistics

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