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	registered interest
	date	06/03/2024
	answering body	Ministry of Justice
	answering dept id	54
	answering dept short name	Justice
	answering dept sort name	Justice
	hansard heading	Special Guardianship Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many children have been subject to a special guardianship order in each of the last 10 years.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	17246
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/03/2024 answer text <p>The Government does not collect figures in relation to how many children are subject to a special guardianship order at any one time.</p><p>However, the following table extracted from the publicly available Family Court Statistics Quarterly figures provides details on the number of children involved in orders from 2013 until 2022. Data for public law cases in 2022 has not been published due to data issues resulting from the reform of public law services.</p><p>The number of these orders has remained relatively stable over that period.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Public Law</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Private Law</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013</p></td><td><p>4,923</p></td><td><p>1,863</p></td><td><p>6,786</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014</p></td><td><p>4,852</p></td><td><p>1,944</p></td><td><p>6,796</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015</p></td><td><p>5,514</p></td><td><p>1,949</p></td><td><p>7,463</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016</p></td><td><p>5,668</p></td><td><p>1,812</p></td><td><p>7,480</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2017</p></td><td><p>5,758</p></td><td><p>1,581</p></td><td><p>7,339</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2018</p></td><td><p>5,920</p></td><td><p>1,501</p></td><td><p>7,421</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2019</p></td><td><p>5,835</p></td><td><p>1,544</p></td><td><p>7,379</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2020</p></td><td><p>5,268</p></td><td><p>1,196</p></td><td><p>6,464</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2021</p></td><td><p>6,124</p></td><td><p>1,293</p></td><td><p>7,417</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2022</p></td><td><p>*</p></td><td><p>1,184</p></td><td><p>*</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Finchley and Golders Green answering member printed Mike Freer question first answered 11/03/2024 17:06:49 answering member 4004 label Biography information for Mike Freer
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1146247

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Guardianship Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Special Guardianship Orders have been (a) initiated and (b) terminated in each of the last ten years; and how many and what proportion of children subject to those Special Guardianship Orders have been placed with grandparents.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	290557
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2019 answer text <p>Figures on the number of looked-after children who were made the subject of a Special Guardianship order during the year in each of the last 5 years are published in Tables D1 and E5 of the statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2017 to 2018’ at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018</a>. Figures for earlier years are published in table D1 in previous releases <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-looked-after-children" target="_blank">Statistics: looked-after children - GOV.UK</a>. Regarding details on whether the guardians are grandparents, this information is not held centrally.</p><p>Regarding details on whether a special guardianship is terminated, this information is not held centrally and is not collected. Figures on the number of children starting to be looked-after, having previously been the subject of a special guardianship order, are published in Table C1 of the statistical release ‘Children looked after in England including adoption: 2017 to 2018’ at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2017-to-2018</a>, These figures have only been collected since 2014-15 and caution should be used when interpreting this data as there is a high proportion of unknowns.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 04/10/2019 12:38:03 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

1146248

	registered interest
	date	25/09/2019
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Special Guardianship Orders
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proposals he has for reforming Special Guardianship Orders.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	290558
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/10/2019 answer text <p>The Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board was established to provide leadership to the system and drive improvements. The board is currently undertaking a piece of work called the Adoption &amp; Special Guardianship Support Blueprint. This will set out what a good quality support service would look like, based on the best practice from around the country.</p> answering member constituency Chippenham answering member printed Michelle Donelan question first answered 04/10/2019 12:45:17 answering member 4530 label Biography information for Michelle Donelan
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton