LA - Children who started to be looked after during the year
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
Footnotes:
1. National and regional numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Percentages rounded to the nearest whole number. See the methodology document for further information. Figures exclude children looked after under a series of short-term placements. Historical data may differ from older publications which is mainly due to amendments made by local authorities after the previous publication.
2. No new applications for freeing orders may be made on or after 30 December 2005, they were replaced by placement orders.
3. Only the first occasion on which a child started to be looked after in the year has been counted.
4. For some local authorities, such as Kent, 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 2020
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- Local authority, National, Regional
- Indicators
- Number of children
- Percentage of children
- Filters
- Characteristics by detail
- Time period
- 2018 to 2020
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | region_code | region_name | old_la_code | la_name | new_la_code | characteristic | detail | number | percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | 1 to 4 years | 5350 | 17 | |||||
| 2020 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | 10 to 15 years | 8330 | 27 | |||||
| 2020 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | 16 years and over | 6210 | 20 | |||||
| 2020 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | 5 to 9 years | 5100 | 16 | |||||
| 2020 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | Total | 30970 | 100 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| detail | Characteristics by detail |
| number | Number of children |
| percentage | Percentage of children |
Footnotes
- Before using this data, please check the metadata guidance document for important information such as definitions, limitations and caveats.
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