22-25 year old care leaver activity - NATIONAL
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Care leavers in touch with the local authority, aged 22 to 25, by activity at latest contact. Users should be cautious when drawing conclusions from this data. Activity information is only for those young people who contacted the LA and requested and received support and so for older care leavers the cohort may be small.
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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
- National
- Indicators
- Number
- Percentage
- Filters
- Age of the care leaver
- Characteristic
- Time period
- 2023 to 2024
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | age_group | CLA_group | characteristic | measure | number | percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | 22 years | Care leavers group | Care leaver not in touch | Activity of care leaver | 4910 | 43 |
| 2024 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | 22 years | Care leavers group | Care leaver not in touch | LA in-touch with the care leaver during the year | 5050 | 45 |
| 2024 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | 22 years | Care leavers group | Female | Gender | 4060 | 36 |
| 2024 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | 22 years | Care leavers group | Full-time education other than higher education | Activity of care leaver | 510 | 5 |
| 2024 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | 22 years | Care leavers group | Full-time higher education i.e. studies beyond A level | Activity of care leaver | 540 | 5 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| age_group | Age of the care leaver |
| characteristic | Characteristic - By measure |
| number | Number |
| percentage | Percentage |
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'. Figures exclude young people who were looked after under an agreed series of short term placements, those who have died since leaving care, those who have returned home to parents or someone with parental responsibility for a continuous period of at least 6 months and those whose care was transferred to another local authority. Figures for the number of care leavers who have died each year can be found in the methodology document.
- For young people who turned 22, 23, 24 or 25 during the year, data is only reported if the young person requested and received support from the local authority. Information reported is at their last contact with the local authority. Local authorities are not expected to be in touch and initiate contact with young people over age 21 who have not requested or received support during the reporting period. This data is collected and reported to record the numbers of older care leavers who are accessing their entitlement to support and to better understand their activity and accommodation status.
- Data was collected for the first time in 2023, and in some cases may be an undercount of the full cohort, particularly for the older care leavers. In 2023, we suspect the number of 24-year-olds could be undercounted by up to 3% and 25-year-olds could be undercounted by up to 10% (when comparing to the number of 20- and 21-year-old care leavers reported in 2019).
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