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Statistics Publication Notice: Health and Care Series: Children's Social Work Statistics 2004-05

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Table 2.7: Young people in secure accommodation: Placement prior to admission and reason for admission, by gender, 2004-05

Placement Prior to admissions during the year

Gender

Parental home, relatives or friends

Foster care or children's home

Residential school

Young offenders institution or prison

Secure accommodation

Other

Missing

Total

Boys

83

27

36

*

18

16

*

197

Girls

18

27

11

*

5

12

*

75

Total

101

54

47

9

23

28

10

273

Legal reason for admissions during the year

Gender

Section 44(1)

Section 205

Section 208

Section 70(9)

Place of Safety Order

Temporary detention

Pending hearing

Other

Missing

Total

Boys

*

*

10

11

70

35

17

47

*

197

Girls

0

*

0

6

35

5

6

20

*

75

Total

*

*

10

17

105

40

23

67

7

273

Note: Cells containing * represent small numbers suppressed to maintain confidentiality.
Table includes admissions made after 31/03/2004 and before 1/04/2005
There was one young person for whom gender was not reported. For this reason totals do not equal the sum of their parts.
A single child may be admitted more than once during the year.
Legal reason for admission:
Order made under section 44(1) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995
Order made under section 205 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995
Order made under section 208 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995
Order made under section 70(9) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, to which is attached a condition authorising the use of Secure Accommodation.
Place of safety order or warrant made under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 authorising the use of Secure Accommodation.
Committal to a Place of Safety or other temporary detention is made under the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995
The authority of the Director of Social Work and the person in charge of the establishment, pending the convening of a Children's Hearing to consider the case.

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