Statistics Publication Notice: Health and Care Series: Educational Outcomes for Scotland's Looked After Children, 2009/10

Table 11 shows that when comparing the destination types at the initial and follow-up destination surveys it was found that only 36 per cent of looked after children who left school during 2009/10 were in a positive destination in both surveys, compared with 80 per cent for all school leavers.

Twenty-four per cent of looked after children who left school in 2009/10 and who were initially in a positive destination were reported as being in a negative destination at the time of the follow up survey, compared to this only being the case for 7 per cent of all 2009/10 school leavers.

Thirty-two per cent of looked after children who left school in 2009/10 were in a negative destination at the time of both destination surveys, compared to only 8 per cent for all 2009/10 school leavers.

Table 11: Percentage of school leavers by sustained destination for all school leavers and those who are looked after children, 2009/10.