Council data gathered by the association suggests there were an estimated 81,700 children in council care on 31 March this year, compared with 78,150 on the same date in 2019 and 75,420 in 2018, according to Department for Education figures.
This represents an increase of 8.2 per cent over the past two years.
The figures – included in interim findings from the ADCS’s latest Safeguarding Pressures study – indicate the rate of looked-after children in England has risen to 68 per 10,000 children, up from 65 per 10,000 the year before.
The interim report provides key headlines of the pressures faced by local authorities during 2019/20 while also including a focus on activity in the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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