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<p>A child being remanded into the community whilst awaiting trial can cover a wide
range of arrangements, including where a child lives at home or away from home.</p><p>It
is the responsibility of local authorities to arrange a suitable placement when a
child is remanded to Local Authority Accommodation, and to fund these arrangements.
We do not mandate or hold central data for all community remand episodes and cannot
therefore provide a simple average.</p><p>However, based on Department for Education
data, and Department for Education calculations based on data from the Personal Social
Services Research Unit respectively, the average unit cost of foster care (for all
children, not just those remanded by the courts) was £41,070 per annum in 2023/24,
whilst the equivalent cost for residential care was £263,984. The Ministry of Justice’s
Remand Review (2022) provides some examples of the cost of community remand where
the child is supervised while living at home.</p>
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