Independent Care Home Expenditure
Case reference FOI2025/02146
Received 28 October 2025
Published 18 November 2025
Request
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting information regarding the council's expenditure on residential care placements for children in private and independent care homes.
Please provide the following information:
The total expenditure for the last ten completed financial years: 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24.
The proportion of spending on council run care homes in relation to private providers for the last ten completed financial years: 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24.
Please provide this information in a table format when possible.
Response
Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I am requesting information regarding the council's expenditure on residential care placements for children in private and independent care homes.
Please provide the following information:
The total expenditure for the last ten completed financial years: 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24.
The proportion of spending on council run care homes in relation to private providers for the last ten completed financial years: 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, and 2023/24.
Please provide this information in a table format when possible.
Answer: Please see attached CSV sheet. Please note we can only provide data from 2019 onwards. We do not hold data from before 2019.
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