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REVISED Table 3.3: Number of care leavers beyond minimum school leaving age with at least one qualification at SCQF level 3 or above, 2005-06

Local authority area

leavers from care at home

leavers from care away from home

Percentage with at least 1 qualification at SCQF level 3 or above

Change in percentage points since 2004-05

Looked after at home

Looked after away from home

Total

Looked after at home

Looked after away from home

Total

Aberdeen City

45

19

47

47

47

8

-10

-2

Aberdeenshire

21

17

67

59

63

10

-21

-6

Angus

6

8

0

63

36

-13

-4

-5

Argyll & Bute

11

16

36

13

22

0

-25

-15

Clackmannanshire

10

11

50

73

62

-30

13

-8

Dumfries & Galloway

22

25

59

28

43

-1

-25

-12

Dundee City

37

26

41

73

54

6

45

21

East Ayrshire

17

9

18

22

19

-20

-21

-21

East Dunbartonshire

*

*

50

75

63

-6

13

4

East Lothian

*

*

67

79

76

25

23

East Renfrewshire

Edinburgh, City of

71

52

46

58

51

7

7

6

Eilean Siar

*

*

0

17

10

-67

-43

-54

Falkirk

*

*

50

75

55

14

18

11

Fife

28

47

57

64

61

3

34

25

Glasgow City

119

84

40

52

45

16

1

12

Highland

Inverclyde

0

10

-

30

30

-

-6

4

Midlothian

Moray

9

9

44

44

44

0

-25

-15

North Ayrshire

22

17

59

71

64

-6

-4

-4

North Lanarkshire

64

14

28

57

33

Orkney Isles

*

*

100

100

100

0

0

Perth & Kinross

10

10

50

70

60

36

37

40

Renfrewshire

36

29

53

69

60

1

-8

Scottish Borders

Shetland

*

*

50

100

67

17

33

South Ayrshire

21

10

67

70

68

21

-12

5

South Lanarkshire

19

20

47

75

62

31

17

Stirling

7

16

29

38

35

-46

-40

-42

West Dunbartonshire

20

21

50

67

59

0

2

2

West Lothian

21

31

76

58

65

10

11

10

SCOTLAND

705

562

45

57

50

7

2

4

Note: Cells containing * represent small numbers that are suppressed to maintain confidentiality.
Aberdeen City data excludes three children for whom educational attainment was unknown.
East Ayrshire, Scottish Borders and Dumfries and Galloway revised data for 2004-05.
East Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders, Midlothian and Highland did not provide information in time for inclusion. 2004-05 figures for these authorities have been incorporated into the Scotland total.
Glasgow's 'at home' figures include children living with relatives.

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