CLA starting during the year by characteristics - LA
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Local authority level data for children who started to be looked after during the year by: age group, category of need, gender, legal status, numbers taken into care, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. For some local authorities, the figures may be impacted by significant numbers of unaccompanied asylum seeking children.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Children's social care
- Publication
- Children looked after in England including adoptions
- Release
- Reporting year 2024
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- Local authority, National, Regional
- Indicators
- Number
- Percentage
- Filters
- Characteristic
- Time period
- 2020 to 2024
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| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | region_code | region_name | old_la_code | la_name | new_la_code | cla_group | characteristic | number | percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | 1 to 4 years | 4830 | 15 | |||||
| 2024 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | 10 to 15 years | 8690 | 26 | |||||
| 2024 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | 16 years and over | 9440 | 29 | |||||
| 2024 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | 5 to 9 years | 4890 | 15 | |||||
| 2024 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | Total | 33050 | 100 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| characteristic | Characteristic |
| number | Number |
| percentage | Percentage |
Footnotes
- National and regional 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'. Historical data may differ from older publications which is mainly due to amendments made by local authorities after the previous publication. However, users looking for a longer time series may wish to check for the equivalent table in earlier releases of this publication. Figures exclude children looked after under a series of short-term placements.
- Following the introduction of the National Transfer Scheme (NTS) in 2016, there has been an agreement between local authorities to transfer UASC to ensure a more equitable distribution of UASC across all local authorities. This means that some UASC will be counted more than once in the national and regional CLA starting and ceasing figures if they started or ceased to be looked after within more than one local authority during the year. In 2020, the number of UASC starts included 140 young people who had transferred from another LA; this had increased to 1,970 in 2024 following the mandation of the NTS in February 2022.
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