CLA at 31 March - characteristics by disability
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Children looked after at 31 March with and without a disability recorded each year, broken down by UASC status, sex, age, ethnicity, category of need, legal status and placement type.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Children's social care
- Publication
- Children in need: A focus on disability
- Release
- Reporting year 2025
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 3,420
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Child count
- Child percent
- Filters
- Breakdown
- Disability
- UASC status
- Time period
- 2015 to 2024
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| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | uasc_status | disability | breakdown_topic | breakdown | child_count | child_percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Include UASC | All CLA at 31 March | Total | Total | 68550 | 100 |
| 2016 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Include UASC | All CLA at 31 March | Total | Total | 69860 | 100 |
| 2017 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Include UASC | All CLA at 31 March | Total | Total | 72350 | 100 |
| 2018 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Include UASC | All CLA at 31 March | Total | Total | 75230 | 100 |
| 2019 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Include UASC | All CLA at 31 March | Total | Total | 78020 | 100 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| breakdown | Breakdown |
| child_count | Child count |
| child_percent | Child percent |
| disability | Disability - Filter by disability |
| uasc_status | UASC status - Filter by UASC status |
Footnotes
- Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Percentages rounded to the nearest whole number. Figures in some tables may be suppressed, denoted by a 'c', percentages <0.5% are denoted by a 'k'.
- 'Youth Justice' legal statuses refers to children: remanded to LA accommodation or youth detention accommodation under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012; placed in LA accommodation under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984; or, sentenced to a youth rehabilitation order with residence or intensive fostering requirement under the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (as amended).
- The category 'Independent and semi-independent living arrangements/supported accommodation' reports data for young people in placements in former semi-independent living arrangements and living independently up to and including 2023. From 2024 all placements are supported accommodation (registered with Ofsted). From 28 October 2023 it became illegal for young people to be placed in former semi-independent and independent living placements. Supported accommodation providers were required to submit a completed application to Ofsted by 28 October 2023. From 2024, young people who were placed in former semi-independent and independent living placements with providers who had not submitted a completed application by the deadline are reported within the 'Other' category.
- Unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC) are children who have applied for asylum in their own right and are separated from both parents and/or any other responsible adult. Local authorities have a legal duty to provide accommodation for these children. Details of the National Transfer Scheme (NTS) can be found in the methodology section of the Children looked after publication.
- Disability information for CLA and care leavers is extracted from the longitudinal CIN dataset, an internal dataset which links CIN and CLA data. As such, children and young people that could not be matched to this dataset have been removed from this analysis, meaning that child counts may not exactly match those published elsewhere.
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