To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of parental requests for residential care for a child or young person with a disability that were received by the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust in each of the last five years.

The South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust does not centrally collate requests by parents of children with a disability who were seeking a residential placement. This particular field is not captured electronically on the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trusts information management systems. To attempt to locate this information would require a manual examination of hundreds of files.