Data set from Children looked after in England including adoptions

CLA starting during the year by characteristics - LA

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Published 16 November 2023

Last updated 16 November 2023

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 2023
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Number
  • Percentage
• Filters:
  • Characteristic
• Time period: 2019 to 2023

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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	percentage
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Age group	1 to 4 years	4840	15
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Age group	10 to 15 years	8910	27
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Age group	16 years and over	9070	27
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Age group	5 to 9 years	4730	14
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Age group	Total	33000	100

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 3 variables

Variable name	Variable description
characteristic	Characteristic
number	Number
percentage	Percentage

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Footnotes

1. National and regional numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Percentages rounded to the nearest whole number. 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. 
2. 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 2019, the number of UASC starts included 340 young people who had transferred from another LA; this had increased to 1,030 in 2023 following the mandation of the NTS in February 2022.

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