Children looked after in England including adoptions
Children looked after, care leavers and children adopted in England. Annual statistics including characteristics, placement information and health outcomes.
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- Department for Education
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If you have a specific enquiry about Children looked after in England including adoptions statistics and data:
Looked-after children statistics team
Email: cla.stats@education.gov.ukContact name: Justin Ushie
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These accredited official statistics have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (opens in new tab) (OSR). They comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab). Accredited official statistics are called National Statistics in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (opens in new tab).
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- managed impartially and objectively in the public interest
- meet identified user needs
- produced according to sound methods
- well explained and readily accessible
Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR).
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You are welcome to contact us directly with any comments about how we meet these standards. Alternatively, you can contact OSR by emailing regulation@statistics.gov.uk or via the OSR website (opens in new tab).
Pre-release access list
Besides Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff, the following post holders were given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.
- Secretary of State for Education
- Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing
- Minister for the School System and Finance
- Minister of State
- Special advisers, x4
- Permanent Secretary
- Chief Analyst and Director, SARDIS & Strategic Data Transformation
- Head of Profession for Statistics and Deputy Director, Data Insight and Statistics Division
- Deputy Head of Profession for Statistics, Data Insight and Statistics Division
- Director General, Strategy Group
- Director General, Families Group
- Director, Strategy and Care system
- Head of Families Analysis Division
- DD, Adoption, Family Justice and Alternatives to Care
- G6, Residential children’s homes
- G6, Adoption and Permanence
- G6, Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children
- G7, Fostering
- G7, Supported accommodation
- G7, Children’s homes
- G7, Care leavers, x2
- G7, Children's Services Analysis and Research
- SEO, CLA outcomes
- SEO, Safeguarding
- SEO, Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children
- SEO, Children in Need and Looked After Children Analysis Team, x2
- SEO, Children In Need Outcomes
- Chief Media Officer
- Senior Media Officer
- Media Officer x 3