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Table 2.5: Number of children looked after 2000-2006 by disability status
| Children looked after on 31 March… | % of total 2006 |
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2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
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Significant learning disability | 257 | 302 | 254 | 268 | 349 | 265 | 238 | 2 |
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Mental health problem (medically diagnosed) | 23 | 26 | 19 | 20 | 24 | 10 | 15 | 0 |
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Autism | 31 | 51 | 68 | 46 | 64 | 66 | 73 | 1 |
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Significant hearing impairment | 13 | 15 | 20 | 19 | 24 | 15 | 22 | 0 |
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Significant language and communication disorder | 35 | 31 | 17 | 65 | 42 | 41 | 37 | 0 |
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Significant physical or motor impairment | 92 | 140 | 96 | 136 | 113 | 84 | 75 | 1 |
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Significant visual impairment | 18 | 46 | 17 | 14 | 28 | 22 | 20 | 0 |
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Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties | 1,167 | 1,150 | 1,262 | 802 | 1,120 | 898 | 711 | 5 |
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Other disability | 122 | 109 | 133 | 135 | 121 | 84 | 76 | 1 |
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Multiple disabilities | 116 | 135 | 124 | 85 | 135 | 115 | 108 | 1 |
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No disabilities, but affected by disability | 246 | 282 | 370 | 361 | 359 | 275 | 285 | 2 |
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No disabilities, and not affected by disability | 9,191 | 8,611 | 8,860 | 9,436 | 9,296 | 7,839 | 8,021 | 62 |
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Unknown | | | | | | 2,471 | 3,285 | 25 |
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Total | 11,309 | 10,898 | 11,241 | 11,388 | 11,675 | 12,185 | 12,966 | 100 |
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Note: Table excludes children who are on a planned series of short term placements.
South Lanarkshire were unable to provide the disability status of their looked after children so the total number of looked after children in that authority has been incorporated as 'not known's in this table.
In years 2000 - 2004 children with unreported disability status were allocated to a group rather than being presented as 'unknown'.
In 2000 to 2004 some totals do not exactly equal the sum of their component parts due to the effects of rounding.
East Renfrewshire and Scottish Borders did not provide 2006 information in time for inclusion. 2004-05 figures for these authorities have been incorporated into this table and do not include young people aged 19-21.
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