Statistics released by children's minister Edward Timpson have highlighted significant disparities in how many young people in England are taking up the opportunity to stay in their foster placement past the age of 18.
Under so-called "Staying Put" arrangements, since 2014 councils must offer young people turning 18 the opportunity to remain in foster care up to the age of 21.
The government's statistics show that 27 local authorities – including East Sussex, Havering, Lincolnshire (see box), Middlesbrough, Wakefield and York – reported that 100 per cent of young people who were eligible for Staying Put in 2014/15 were still with their former foster carer three months after their 18th birthday.
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