CLA at 31 March - placement distance by disability and disability type
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Children looked after at 31 March with and without a disability recorded each year, broken down by UASC status, disability type and median placement distance.
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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
- 300
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Median placement distance
- Filters
- Disability
- Disability type
- UASC status
- Time period
- 2015 to 2024
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| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | uasc_status | disability | disability_type | med_place_dist |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Include UASC | All CLA at 31 March | Total | 6 |
| 2016 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Include UASC | All CLA at 31 March | Total | 6 |
| 2017 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Include UASC | All CLA at 31 March | Total | 6 |
| 2018 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Include UASC | All CLA at 31 March | Total | 6 |
| 2019 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Include UASC | All CLA at 31 March | Total | 6 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| disability | Disability - Filter by disability |
| disability_type | Disability type - Filter by disability type |
| med_place_dist | Median placement distance |
| uasc_status | UASC status - Filter by UASC status |
Footnotes
- The average distance relates to the median distance.
- 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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