Looked After Children with Immigration Status

Looked After Children with Immigration Status

1) In the period 2023 - 2025 inclusive, for each calendar year, please share the number of Looked After Children who had immigration status recorded as an issue of concern, including (but not limited to):

no current immigration status,

unresolved or insecure immigration status,

or ongoing immigration or nationality applications.

If it would threaten the privacy of any individual to report numbers year on year, please report for the full three-year basis (2023 - 2025 inclusive).



2) Number of Looked After children with immigration status: 2023, 2024, 2025



3) Number of Looked After children with NO immigration status: 2023, 2024, 2025



4) Number of Looked After Children with Family and/or Connected Persons abroad

In the period 2023 - 2025, did you explore family and/or connected persons overseas as potential carers for a child in your care? Yes/No



5) Number of children placed with Family and/or Connected Persons abroad

In the period 2023 - 2025, for each calendar year, how many children were actually with Family and/or Connected Persons outside England or outside the UK? Please report for the full three-year basis (2023 - 2025 inclusive). If your response is 'nil', please use '0'.



6) Placed outside of England but within UK: 2023, 2024, 2025



7) Placed outside of the UK: 2023, 2024, 2025



8) Court orders used for placement overseas

For each calendar year, between 2023 - 2025, what number and types of court orders were used to place children with Family and/or Connected Persons outside of the UK? Please report for the full three-year basis (2023 - 2025 inclusive).



9) No order but child placed outside UK: 2023, 2024, 2025

ICO: 2023, 2024, 2025

CAO: 2023, 2024, 2025

Special Guardianship Order: 2023, 2024, 2025

Adoption Order: 2023, 2024, 2025

Other Order: 2023, 2024, 2025



10) Post-placement support for overseas placements

Has your local authority made any financial support payments to kinship carers living overseas in the past three calendar years (2023, 2024, 2025)? This is regardless of order type and could include:

section 17 payments,

kinship allowance,

SG support,

discretionary welfare payments etc.



11) Please list countries of residence of the formerly LAC.

1) 21

2) 170

3) 0

4) Number of Looked After Children with Family and/or Connected Persons abroad – we do not collate this information centrally and to extract this information would require searching individual records and would take over the recommended number of hours

In the period 2023 - 2025, did you explore family and/or connected persons overseas as potential carers for a child in your care? Yes

5) 36

6) In instances where there are between one and five children that fit the criterion, we are not including the exact number to protect these children from the risk of identification

7) 9

8) In instances where there are between one and five children that fit the criterion, we are not including the exact number to protect these children from the risk of identification

9) 9) No order but child placed outside UK: 2023, 2024, 2025 - 0

ICO: 2023, 2024, 2025 - 0

CAO: 2023, 2024, 2025 - 0

Special Guardianship Order: 2023, 2024, 2025 - 9

Adoption Order: 2023, 2024, 2025 - 0

Other Order: 2023, 2024, 2025 - 0


10) section 17 payments, - no

kinship allowance yes

SG support, yes

discretionary welfare payments etc. no

11) In instances where there are between one and five children that fit the criterion, we are not including the exact number to protect these children from the risk of identification