Ian Austin – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Ian Austin on 2016-04-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the number of grandparents that care for grandchildren.

Edward Timpson

Informal family and friends care arrangements, such as grandparents who provide care to their grandchildren, are made within families, without local authority involvement.

The Department collects and publishes information about looked-after children who are placed in foster care with a relative or friend. As at 31 March 2015, 7,910 looked-after children were cared for in these arrangements.