Education written question – answered at on 15 November 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many children were (a) taken into care (excluding respite care), (b) left care and (c) were adopted in each year from 1980 to 2005; how many left care through adoption in each such year; and how many were in care on 31 March in each such year.
The information requested on (a) the number of children taken into care (excluding respite care) from 1980 to 2005 can be provided only at a disproportionate cost. Information on the number of children who were taken into care was published for the first time in 2010. This table shows information for year ending
http://www.education.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000960/index.shtml
Information on the number of children (b) who left care, (c) who were adopted and the number who were in care on
"Children Looked After by Local Authorities Year ending
http://www.education.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/VOL/v000506/index.shtml
Table A: Number of children who were looked after at
Table H: Number of looked-after children adopted during year ending
"Children Looked After by Local Authorities Year ending
http://www.education.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/VOL/v000509/index.shtml
Table S: Number of children who ceased to be looked after during the year ending
Table H: Number of looked-after children adopted during the year ending
"Children Looked After by Local Authorities, Year Ending
http://www.education.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/VOL/v000646/index.shtml
Table AB: Children who ceased to be looked after during the year ending
Table AM: Looked-after children adopted during the year ending
Both of these tables can be found in the additional information titled "Volume 1-National Tables".
Number of children looked after at
Information on the number of children looked after at
Historical data in the above statistical releases may differ from that included in older publications. This is mainly due to the implementation of amendments and corrections sent by some local authorities after the publication date of previous materials.
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