Children's social work statistics: 2018-2019 - republication
Revised children's social work statistics for Scotland for 2018 to 2019, including data on children and young people looked after, on the child protection register and in secure care, originally published on 31 March 2020.
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Annex A: Children's Social Work Statistics 2018-19 Publication Tables
Full Excel versions of these tables with additional detail are available in the supporting files accompanying the publication.
Introduction
Illust. 1 Infographic showing all children in Scotland and relative number being looked after and on the child protection register at 31 July 2019
Looked after children
Table 1.1 Number of children looked after at 31 July 2009-2019, by type of accommodation
Chart 1 Children looked after per 1,000 children under 18 by type of accommodation 1987‑2019
Table 1.2 Children looked after at 31 July 2019 with and without a current care plan
Table 1.3 Number and percentage of children starting to be looked after 2003- 2019, by age and gender
Table 1.4 Number and percentage of children ceasing to be looked after, by length of time looked after and age, 2003-2019
Table 1.5 Number and Percentage of children ceasing to be looked after by destination, 2002-2019
Table 1.6 Pathway plans and nominated pathway co-ordinators of young people who were 16 years old or over on the date they ceased to be looked after during 1 August 2018 to 31 July 2019
Table 1.7 Young people eligible for aftercare services on 31 July 2019, by age and economic activity
Table 1.8 Children in Continuing Care
Chart 2 Cross-UK comparison of rate of looked after children per 10,000 children, 2004-2019
Child protection
Chart 3 Number of children on the child protection register, by age, 2000-2019
Table 2.1 Number of children on the child protection register by age and gender, 2000-2019
Table 2.2 Number of registrations following an initial, pre-birth or transfer-in case conference by length of time since previous de-registration, 2007- 2019
Table 2.3 Number of deregistrations from the child protection register, 2007- 2019, by length of time on register and reason for deregistration
Chart 4 Concerns identified at the case conferences of children who were on the child protection register, 2019
Table 2.4 Number of children on the child protection register and rate per 1,000 population aged 0-15 by local authority, 2007-2019
Chart 5 Percentage of deregistrations by length of time registered, 2007-2019
Chart 6 Cross-UK comparison of rate of children on the child protection register per 10,000 under 18s, 2004-2019
Secure care accommodation
Table 3.1 Secure care unit bed complement at 31 July 2019
Table 3.2 Secure care accommodation capacity and usage, 2014‑2019
Table 3.3 Young people in secure care accommodation 2014-2019 by gender, age, disability and length of stay
Table 3.4 Number of secure children's homes/secure care accommodation units, places approved and children accommodated at year end across the United Kingdom, 2014-2019
Other
Chart 7 Children Referred to the Children's Reporter and numbers looked after/on child protection register, 2004-2019
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