Reporting year 2022

Looked after children aged 16 to 17 in independent or semi-independent placements

Data guidance

Published 23 March 2023

Description

Data on the number and characteristics of children looked-after placed aged 16 to 17 in independent or semi-independent accommodation.

Coverage

2022

Data files

All data files associated with this releases are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.

Characteristics

Filename: long_publish.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2022
Content: The number of children looked-after aged 16 to 17 placed in independent or semi-independent accommodation in 2022, disaggregated by age, gender, ethnicity, disability, legal status, placement provider, locality of placement and time to start of placement.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
characteristics	Characteristics - Filter by demographics, UASC status, placement provider, locality of placement, and time to start
number_children	Number of children
Percent_children	Percentage of children
placement	Placement - Filter by placement type

Footnotes

National and regional numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Local authority figures are unrounded. Historical data may differ from older publications which is mainly due to amendments made by local authorities after the previous publication. Percentages have been rounded to whole numbers. Note that percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding.
For confidentiality purposes, numbers from one to five inclusive have been replaced in the published tables by a 'c'. Where any number is shown as zero, the original figure submitted was zero. Percentages that would round to zero but are not zero, for example where a percentage is <0.5%, have been suppressed and replaced by a 'k'.

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Local Authority Level

Filename: la_publish.csv
Geographic levels: Local authority
Time period: 2022
Content: The number and proportion of children looked-after aged 16 to 17 placed in independent or semi-independent accommodation disaggregated by local authority

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
Independent_Living	Number of children living independently
Semi_independent_living_accommodation_not_subject_to_Childrens_Homes_regulations	Number of children in semi-independent living accommodation not subject to Children's Homes regulations

Footnotes

National and regional numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Local authority figures are unrounded. Historical data may differ from older publications which is mainly due to amendments made by local authorities after the previous publication. Percentages have been rounded to whole numbers. Note that percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding.
For confidentiality purposes, numbers from one to five inclusive have been replaced in the published tables by a 'c'. Where any number is shown as zero, the original figure submitted was zero. Percentages that would round to zero but are not zero, for example where a percentage is <0.5%, have been suppressed and replaced by a 'k'.

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Time Series

Filename: yearly_publish.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2012 to 2022
Content: The number and proportion of children looked-after aged 16 to 17 placed in independent or semi-independent accommodation, 2012 to 2022.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
number_children	Number of children
Percent_children	Percentage of children
placement	Placement - Filter by placement type

Footnotes

National and regional numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Local authority figures are unrounded. Historical data may differ from older publications which is mainly due to amendments made by local authorities after the previous publication. Percentages have been rounded to whole numbers. Note that percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding.
For confidentiality purposes, numbers from one to five inclusive have been replaced in the published tables by a 'c'. Where any number is shown as zero, the original figure submitted was zero. Percentages that would round to zero but are not zero, for example where a percentage is <0.5%, have been suppressed and replaced by a 'k'.

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