LA - Children looked after at 31 March by characteristics
Local authority level data for children looked after at 31 March by:
- age group
- category of need
- distance between home and placement
- distance between home and placement and locality of placement
- ethnicity
- gender
- legal status
- local authority of placement
- locality of placement
- placement type
- placement provider
- numbers of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.
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. Category of need is the main category of the eight “need codes” at the time the child started to be looked after.
3. No new applications for freeing orders may be made on or after 30 December 2005, they were replaced by placement orders.
4. 'Youth Justice legal statuses' refers to children: remanded to LA accommodation or youth detention accommodation under the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012; placed in LA accommodation under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984; or, sentenced to a youth rehabilitation order with residence or intensive fostering requirement under the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (as amended).
5. Foster placements 'not Fostering for Adoption or concurrent planning' include children in long term foster placements.
6. In 2020 there were 13 secure units in England, therefore most placements will inevitably be outside the council boundary.
7. Placement locality denotes whether or not the placement is within the geographical boundary of the responsible LA.
8. Living independently includes children in residential employment. Other includes placement in residential schools and other placements.
9. Distance is the distance in miles between the child's home and placement. In some cases this is not known, for example UASC, or not recorded for confidentiality reasons, for example some children placed for adoption.
10. Placement provider is not applicable for children placed with parents. ‘Placement provider not reported’ includes children placed under other (unspecified) placements and some children placed for adoption (where information may be withheld to protect the whereabouts of the child).
11. 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
- Percentage
- Filters
- Characteristic
- 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 | CLA_group | Characteristic | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | 1 to 4 years | 10850 | 14 | |||||
| 2020 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | 10 to 15 years | 31370 | 39 | |||||
| 2020 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | 16 years and over | 19030 | 24 | |||||
| 2020 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | 5 to 9 years | 14700 | 18 | |||||
| 2020 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | Age group | Total children | 80080 | 100 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| Characteristic | Characteristic |
| Number | Number |
| Percentage | Percentage |
Footnotes
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