Disclosure Log

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Question

1/ Please provide the highest annual amount paid in the 2024/25 financial year for an individual child's placement in either children’s homes, unregulated homes or residential special schools? Please state the nature of the placement e.g. children’s home. 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 2024/25 financial year for individual child's placement in either children’s homes, unregulated homes or residential special schools? Please state the nature of the placement e.g. children’s home. Please include all costs including all care and education costs, per child placement. 3/ Please provide the highest annual amount paid in the 2024/25 financial year for an individual child’s placement in independent special schools. Please provide the total annual cost if the child has been placed in multiple schools during the financial year. If known, please provide any mitigating reasons for any high costs (e.g. 4-to-1 care) if you believe it to be relevant. 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.

Answer

We have considered your request and provide the following information: 1/ Please provide the highest annual amount paid in the 2024/25 financial year for an individual child's placement in either children’s homes, unregulated homes or residential special schools? Please state the nature of the placement e.g. children’s home. 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. Children’s Home - £486,218 2/ Please provide the highest weekly amount paid in the 2024/25 financial year for individual child's placement in either children’s homes, unregulated homes or residential special schools? Please state the nature of the placement e.g. children’s home. Please include all costs including all care and education costs, per child placement. Children’s Home - £8,532.02 3/ Please provide the highest annual amount paid in the 2024/25 financial year for an individual child’s placement in independent special schools. Please provide the total annual cost if the child has been placed in multiple schools during the financial year. N/a If known, please provide any mitigating reasons for any high costs (e.g. 4-to-1 care) if you believe it to be relevant. bed blocking charge was required to enable placement stability