Children accommodated in secure children's homes
Children accommodated in secure children's homes in England and Wales including approved places, availability, occupancy, sex, age, ethnicity, length of stay
- Release type
- Produced by
- Department for Education
- Published
Get help by contacting us
If you have a specific enquiry about Children accommodated in secure children's homes statistics and data:
Children looked after statistics team
Email: cla.stats@education.gov.ukContact name: Justin Ushie
Press office
If you have a media enquiry:
Telephone: 020 7783 8300
Public enquiries
If you have a general enquiry about the Department for Education (DfE) or education:
Phone: 0370 000 2288
Opening times
Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 5.30pm (closed on bank holidays)
Accredited official statistics
These accredited official statistics have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (opens in new tab) (OSR). They comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab). Accredited official statistics are called National Statistics in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (opens in new tab).
Accreditation signifies their compliance with the authority's Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab) which broadly means these statistics are:
- managed impartially and objectively in the public interest
- meet identified user needs
- produced according to sound methods
- well explained and readily accessible
Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR).
OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab) that all producers of official statistics should adhere to.
You are welcome to contact us directly with any comments about how we meet these standards. Alternatively, you can contact OSR by emailing regulation@statistics.gov.uk or via the OSR website (opens in new tab).
Pre-release access list
Besides Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff, the following post holders were given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.
- Secretary of State for Education
- Special Advisors (x4)
- Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing
- Minister for the School System and Finance
- Permanent Secretary
- Chief Social Worker for Children and Families
- Director General of Strategy Group
- Director General of Families
- Director, Children's Social Care Reform
- Director of Analysis and Strategic Data Transformation
- Deputy Director, Head of Data Insight and Statistics Division
- G6, Data Insight and Statistics Division
- Deputy Director, Children's Social Care Reform
- G6, Secure Homes and Unregulated
- G7, Secure Children's Homes
- SEO Secure Children's Homes
- Deputy Director, Press Office
- G7, Chief Media Officer, Communications
- HEO, Media Officer, Communications