Statistics Publication Notice: Children Looked After Statistics 2007-08

Table 2.8: Number of children looked after in a planned series of short-term placements, by gender and age 2000-2008

Age/gender	Children looked after on 31 March…									Percentage of 2008 totals
Age/gender	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	Percentage of 2008 totals
Male
Under 5	192	188	228	172	89	77	126	123	108	6
5-11	513	679	517	766	602	520	578	540	439	23
12-15	269	442	539	530	497	455	486	458	407	22
16-17	69	146	169	183	202	185	204	206	211	11
Unknown						5	0	0	0	0
Total	1,043	1,455	1,454	1,651	1,390	1,242	1,394	1,327	1,165	62
Female
Under 5	137	142	274	141	76	65	95	105	113	6
5-11	319	414	286	433	312	279	345	330	270	14
12-15	181	304	492	385	285	260	285	285	220	12
16-17	46	130	129	161	137	123	101	112	123	7
Unknown						6	0	0	0	0
Total	683	990	1,181	1,120	810	733	826	832	726	38
All people
Under 5	329	330	502	313	165	142	221	228	221	12
5-11	832	1,093	804	1,199	914	800	923	870	709	37
12-15	450	746	1,031	915	782	715	771	743	627	33
16-17	115	276	297	344	339	308	305	318	334	18
Unknown						38	0	0	0	0
Total	1,726	2,445	2,635	2,771	2,201	2,003	2,220	2,159	1,891	*100*

Notes: Figures for 2008 are provisional and may be revised in 2008-09.

Prior to 2008, table includes estimates wherever local authorities were not able to provide data.

In 2005 there were 27 children whose gender or age was not known. Consequently the "all people" total does not equal the sum of the total boys and girls.

In years 2000 - 2004 children with unreported gender or age were allocated to a group rather than being presented as 'unknown'. For this reason, some totals do not exactly equal the sum of their component parts due to the effects of rounding.

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