Individual child's placements

1) Please provide the highest annual amount paid in the 2025/26 financial year for an individual child's placement in either children's homes, unregulated homes or residential special schools?

a) Please state the nature of the placement e.g. children's home.
b) Please provide the total annual cost if the child has been placed in multiple placements. Please include all costs including all care and education costs, per child placement.

2) Please provide the highest weekly amount paid in the 2025/26 financial year for an individual child's placement in either children's homes, unregulated homes or residential special schools?

a) Please state the nature of the placement e.g. children's home.
b) Please include all costs including all care and education costs, per child placement.

3) Please provide the highest weekly amount paid in the financial year up to the date this request is supplied - for an individual child's placement in either children's homes, unregulated homes or residential special schools?

a) Please state the nature of the placement e.g. children's home.
b) Please include all costs including all care and education costs, per child placement.

4) If known, please provide any mitigating reasons for any high costs (e.g. 4-to-1 care) if you believe it to be relevant.

Please provide the response in the response template, if possible.

If you are responding to this request on behalf of multiple local authorities, please provide data for all of them with a breakdown per local authority.

1) The highest amount paid in the 2025/26 financial year for an individual child’s placement is £1,081,714

a) Residential children's home

b) £1,081,714

2) £23,362.00

a) Residential Children's home

b) £23,362.00

3a) As above as this is the same time period

b) As above as this is the same time period

4) Originally started on 3:1 staffing, reducing to 2:1 staffing over time