Agenda item

Number of Children in Our Care and Care Leavers - Verbal update from Head of Early Help, Inclusion and Vulnerable Children

Minutes:

The Head of Children’s Social Care, Rachel Farnham, informed the Panel that the total number of children in our care continued to fall and currently stood at 1,201, including 27 young people placed for adoption and 76 unaccompanied asylum seeking young people (UASC), of whom 44 were care leavers. There were 334 care leavers in total.