Data set from Children looked after in England including adoptions

LA - Children looked after at 31 March by LA of placement net gain

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Published 10 December 2020

Last updated 10 December 2020

Local authority level data for children looked after at 31 March by numbers the LA places outside their LA and numbers other LAs place within the LA.

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. Net gain is the difference between the number of children who are the responsibility of other LAs placed within this LA boundary and the number of children who are the responsibility of this LA placed outside the LA boundary.

3. 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
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number
• Filters:
  • Characteristic
• Time period: 2018 to 2020

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

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
2020	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						LA of placement for children	Children who are the responsibility of other LAs placed within this LA boundary	31980
2020	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						LA of placement for children	Children who are the responsibility of this LA placed outside the LA boundary	32990
2020	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Net gain of children	Net gain of children by responsible LA	-1010
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				LA of placement for children	Children who are the responsibility of other LAs placed within this LA boundary	2100
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				LA of placement for children	Children who are the responsibility of this LA placed outside the LA boundary	2200

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 2 variables

Variable name	Variable description
Characteristic	Characteristic
Number	Number

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