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Written question asked by Caroline Spelman (Conservative) on Monday, 18 February 2019, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 20 February 2019. It was answered by Caroline Nokes (Conservative) on Tuesday, 26 February 2019 on behalf of the Home Office.

Immigration: EU Nationals

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate he has made of (a) the number of non-UK EU children in care and (b) the number of those children in each local authority that were part of his Department's private beta phase two testing pilot by (i) age and (ii) EU nationality.

Answer

The precise number of non-UK EU children in care is not known. Local authorities do not routinely collect this data. The Home Office has estimated that there are approximately 5,000 EU children in care in the UK, not including care leavers. This estimate is based on ONS data on the proportion of EEA citizens per Local Authority and government data on volumes of children in care per Local Authority

The second Private Beta phase included some applications for Looked After Children made by five local authorities. The local authorities which participated did so voluntarily for some of the EU children in their care. In total 19 applications were made on behalf of looked after children by these local authorities. Applicants were aged between 5-17 and comprised 6 different nationalities.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
222791
Session
2017-19
Subjects
Children in care Immigration EU nationals
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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