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Health and Care Series: Children Looked After Statistics 2006-07

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Table 1.14: Children starting to be looked after during 2006-07 by disability status

Main Disability

Specific learning difficulties

25

Mental Health problem

14

Autistic spectrum disorder

27

Hearing impairment

8

Language and communication disorder

*

Physical or motor impairment

64

Visual impairment

*

Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties

214

Learning disability

54

Combined Sight and Hearing Loss (deafblind)

0

Other chronic illness/disability

13

Multiple disabilities

48

No disabilitities

3,129

Not known

1,866

Total

5,469

Notes: Figures include all episodes of starting to be looked after ( i.e. a child may be counted more than once).
Cells containing * represent numbers that are suppressed to maintain confidentiality.

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