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.
Total of £1,089,878 made up of two placements, £834,829 unregulated placement and £255,049 residential home 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.
£25,624 per week – unregulated placement (staffing support and accommodation).
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.
The highest cost of an education placement in independent special school setting in the 2024/25 financial year was £233,322.