Department for Education
Reporting year 2025

Stability measures for children looked after in England

Statistics on the stability of Children Looked After (CLA) in their placement, at school and in their professional support, for CLA on 31 March each year.

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Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

This document describes the data included in the underlying data files of the ‘Stability Measures for Children Looked After in England: 2024’ Official Statistics in Development release. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government Guidance (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least three stars for Open Data (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab).

The methodology document for this subject should be referenced alongside this release. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality and how the data is produced.

Coverage

This data is based upon information collected in the SSDA903 (CLA) data collection and, for school stability only, the pupil level school census. 

Information on the coverage of the SSDA903 collection can be found in the data guidance for the ‘Children looked after in England’ publication. 

The school census collects information on pupils attending state-funded schools in England each term.

The longitudinal nature of the SSDA903 collection means historical information can be amended each year, so we update all time series figures published in each release. Numbers and percentages are based on children looked after on 31 March each year and exclude children looked after under an agreed  series of short term placements. 

File formats and conventions

Rounding and suppression

National and regional figures have been rounded to the nearest 10.  Local authority figures are unrounded.

Where any number is shown as zero, the original figure submitted was zero. 

The following symbols have been used in the release:

  • ‘c’ to protect confidentiality. Secondary suppression may have been applied
  • ‘z’ for not applicable
  • ‘x’ for not available
  • ‘k’ used for a value that would round to zero but is not zero, for example where a percentage is <0.5% 

For percentages:

  • where the numerator or denominator is small then the figure is replaced by ‘c’
  • they may not sum to 100% due to rounding
  • they are rounded to whole numbers
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