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Table 2.3: Number of children looked after 2000-2008 by type of accomodation
Type of accommodation | Children looked after on 31 March… | Percentage of 2008 total |
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2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
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In the community |
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At home with parents | 5,270 | 4,842 | 4,909 | 4,851 | 4,982 | 5,179 | 5,517 | 5,986 | 6,359 | 43 |
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With friends / relatives | 1,098 | 980 | 1,303 | 1,445 | 1,426 | 1,671 | 1,731 | 2,094 | 2,398 | 16 |
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With foster carers | 3,058 | 3,084 | 3,170 | 3,288 | 3,461 | 3,493 | 3,731 | 4,055 | 4,243 | 29 |
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With prospective adopters | 123 | 196 | 158 | 180 | 147 | 167 | 184 | 220 | 237 | 2 |
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In other community | 176 | 215 | 106 | 73 | 92 | 136 | 181 | 44 | 36 | 0 |
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Total | 9,724 | 9,315 | 9,646 | 9,838 | 10,108 | 10,646 | 11,344 | 12,399 | 13,273 | 89 |
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In residential accommodation |
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In local authority home | 669 | 704 | 717 | 697 | 721 | 716 | 737 | 756 | 695 | 5 |
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In voluntary sector home | 54 | 63 | 56 | 83 | 66 | 57 | 84 | 112 | 58 | 0 |
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In residential school | 629 | 684 | 672 | 640 | 657 | 618 | 662 | 628 | 649 | 4 |
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In secure accommodation | 90 | 87 | 93 | 92 | 80 | 82 | 78 | 113 | 93 | 1 |
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Other residential accommodation | 143 | 44 | 55 | 38 | 44 | 66 | 77 | 52 | 118 | 1 |
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Total | 1,585 | 1,582 | 1,595 | 1,550 | 1,567 | 1,539 | 1,638 | 1,661 | 1,613 | 11 |
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TOTAL | 11,309 | 10,897 | 11,241 | 11,388 | 11,675 | 12,185 | 12,982 | 14,060 | 14,886 | 100 |
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Notes: Table excludes children who are on a planned series of short term placements.
For those children on mixed placements (for example, a child attending a residential school and living with foster carers during the weekend) the child has been entered under the dominant placement, i.e. the place where the child spends the most time.
Figures for 2008 are provisional and may be revised in 2008-09.
"Other residential accommodation" was replaced by "Crisis Care" on the data collection form in 2007. However, in 2008, both "Crisis Care" and "Other residential" were listed. As the definitions of these categories given in the guidance notes were inconsistent from year to year, all children included in either "Crisis Care" or "Other residential" have been included in the "Other residential" category here, and figures should be treated with caution.
Prior to 2008, table includes estimates wherever local authorities were not able to provide information.
Some totals do not exactly equal the sum of their component parts due to the effects of rounding.
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