These statistics about fostering in England consist of:
main findings
tables, charts and data in ODS format
quality and methodology report
pre-release access list
Official statistics are produced impartially and are free from political influence.
Published 10 November 2022 Last updated 29 November 2023 +show all updates
Update to the 'Fostering in England as at 31 March 2022 - underlying data' ODS file: Corrected minor rounding errors and corrected ethnicity rows in the tab 'Recruitment and retention 2017-22'.
Update to the 'Fostering in England 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022' HTML attachment. Corrected the column headers in Table 4 of the Annex: data tables for figures. The headers were reversed in the original.
