Reporting year 2025

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

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Description

This document describes the data included in the 'Children accommodated in secure children's homes: 31 March 2025' National Statistics release’s underlying data files. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License   (opens in new tab)and is intended to meet at least three stars for Open Data (opens in new tab).

The methodology document for this subject should be referenced alongside this release. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality and how the data is produced.

Coverage

This release contains statistics on children accommodated in secure children's homes in England and Wales, including:

  • numbers of approved and available places
  • availability and occupancy rates
  • children accommodated by sex, age, ethnicity and length of stay.

Information is taken from the DfE SA1 data return collected from secure children's homes. 

Figures relate to the position at 31 March except for 2020 when the reference date was changed to 29 February to reflect the position in secure children's homes before the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the national lockdown.

Individual home notes are:

  • Beechfield was undergoing renovation between 2017 and 2019 whilst unoccupied. It closed in 2019.
  • Swanwick Lodge reported in 2018 ongoing staffing issues and building works. 
  • Leverton Hall closed on 31 July 2014.
  • Red Bank closed on 31 May 2014. It included the homes Newton House, Willows House and Vardy House.
  • Adel Beck was previously known as East Moor until January 2015.
  • Marydale Lodge was previously known as St Catherine's until 2020.
  • Lansdowne was temporarily closed at the date of the 2023 collection and at the time it was approved for 7 places. It had reopened by the 2024 collection.
  • Hillside is the secure children's home in Wales.
  • Clare Lodge was temporarily restricted to 5 places in 2023, but returned to 16 places in summer 2023.

File formats and conventions

The following symbols have been used in this release:

  • ‘c’ figure suppressed to protect confidentiality. There may be some secondary suppression.
  • ‘z’ for not applicable
  • ‘x’ not available.

For percentages:

  • figures may be suppressed with a ‘c’ to protect confidentiality
  • they may not sum to 100% due to rounding

Please note: Users are advised to be cautious if pivoting the csv tables in Excel – suppressed and not applicable cells may be represented as ‘0’ (zero).

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Contact name: Justin Ushie

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