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CHILDREN'S SOCIAL WORK STATISTICS 2003-04

TABLE 1.4
NUMBER OF CHILDREN LOOKED AFTER ON 2000-2004 : BY ETHNIC ORIGIN 1-3

Ethnicity

Children looked after on 31 March…

% of total 2004

% change 2003-2004

% change 2000-2004

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

White

11,175

10,794

11,047

11,163

11,436

98

2

2

Black-Caribbean

0

3

3

4

4

0

19

Black-African

3

7

12

14

20

0

39

611

Black-Other

6

7

4

3

0

0

-100

-100

Indian

3

10

6

6

3

0

-50

7

Pakistani

32

21

30

38

30

0

-21

-7

Bangladeshi

0

8

5

0

2

0

Chinese

1

3

5

7

8

0

9

470

Mixed Ethnicity

52

72

85

100

114

1

15

120

Other Ethnic Group

37

18

44

52

57

0

9

56

Total

11,309

10,942

11,242

11,388

11,675

100

3

3

Note

: (1) Table excludes children who are on a planned series of short term placements.
Note : (2) Table includes rounded estimates for local authorities not able to provide information.
Note : (3) Some totals do not exactly equal the sum of their component parts due to the effects of rounding.

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