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Children's Social Care and Independent Special Schools costs
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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.
£424,110 residential placement unregulated children’s home.
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.
£14,402 per week residential placement unregulated children’s home.
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 placement cost for financial year 2024/25 in an INMSS setting was £220,000.
