Children in Care

(asked on 3rd July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many young people who entered care at each age and who left care at 16 or older and who did not return to their birth parents had been taken into care because of (a) abuse or neglect, (b) child's disability, (c) parents' illness or disability, (d) family in acute stress, (e) family dysfunction, (f) socially unacceptable behaviour, (g) low income, (h) absent parenting and (i) any other reason in the most recent year for which figures are available.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 8th July 2014

Children aged 16 years and over who ceased to be looked after during the year ending 31 March 2013 by age on entering care and category of need is shown in the table. Figures exclude children who returned home to live with parents or relatives on ceasing to be looked after.

Children aged 16 and over who ceased to be looked after during the year ending 31 March 2013, who did not return home to live with parents or relatives, by age at the start of their last period of care, and category of need 1,2,3,4,5,6

Coverage: England

Numbers

Abuse or
neglect

Child's
disability

Parents' illness
or disability

Family in
acute stress

Family
dysfunction

Socially
unacceptable
behaviour

Low income

Absent
parenting

Age on entering
care (years)

2,210

70

130

210

310

50

x

60

Under 1

50

x

10

x

10

x

x

0

1

70

x

x

x

x

0

0

x

2

90

x

x

x

10

0

0

x

3

120

x

10

x

x

x

0

x

4

160

x

x

10

20

0

0

x

5

170

x

10

10

20

0

0

x

6

180

x

20

20

20

0

0

10

7

200

10

10

20

20

x

0

10

8

220

10

20

20

30

x

0

x

9

190

10

10

20

30

x

0

x

10

190

x

10

20

40

x

x

x

11

150

10

10

10

20

10

0

0

12

120

x

10

20

20

x

x

x

13

90

x

10

20

30

x

0

x

14

110

10

x

20

20

10

x

x

15

80

10

x

10

20

10

0

x

16

20

x

x

10

x

x

0

0

17

10

0

0

x

0

0

0

x

Source: SSDA903

1. Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.

2. Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements.

3. Figures only include children who were taken into care, i.e. children who started to be looked after under a care order, police protection, emergency protection order or child assessment order.

4. The most applicable category of the eight “Need Codes” at the time the child started to be looked after rather than necessarily the entire reason they were looked after.

5. Only the last occasion on which a child ceased to be looked after in the year has been counted.

6. Figures exclude children who returned home to live with parents or relatives on ceasing to be looked after.

x Figures not shown in order to protect confidentiality.

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