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

Table 2.1: Number of children looked after and number of children starting to be looked after 2000-2007 by age and gender

Age/gender	Children looked after on 31st March….								Percentage of 2007 total	Children looked after as a percentage of the population
Age/gender	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	Percentage of 2007 total	Children looked after as a percentage of the population
Male
Under 1	130	101	99	104	122	141	126	150	1	0.5
1-4	956	890	957	926	975	995	1,093	1,211	9	1.1
5-11	1,997	1,968	2,081	2,144	2,192	2,269	2,451	2,645	19	1.3
12-15	2,724	2,577	2,548	2,498	2,489	2,481	2,595	2,659	19	2.0
16-17	765	756	801	811	793	849	854	948	7	1.4
18-21							107	174	1	0.5
Unknown						1	0	0	0
Total	6,572	6,291	6,486	6,483	6,571	6,736	7,226	7,787	55	1.4
Female
Under 1	105	92	84	77	125	106	140	134	1	0.5
1-4	729	722	811	841	873	957	1,005	1,171	8	1.1
5-11	1,572	1,554	1,701	1,771	1,873	1,987	2,044	2,149	15	1.1
12-15	1,763	1,674	1,676	1,617	1,687	1,806	1,929	2,087	15	1.7
16-17	568	564	483	599	546	592	525	610	4	1.0
18-21							113	122	1	0.4
Unknown						0	0	0	0
Total	4,737	4,606	4,755	4,905	5,104	5,448	5,756	6,273	45	1.2
All people
Under 1	235	193	183	181	247	247	266	284	2	0.5
1-4	1,685	1,612	1,768	1,768	1,848	1,952	2,098	2,382	17	1.1
5-11	3,569	3,522	3,781	3,914	4,065	4,257	4,495	4,794	34	1.2
12-15	4,487	4,251	4,224	4,115	4,176	4,287	4,524	4,746	34	1.9
16-17	1,333	1,319	1,284	1,410	1,339	1,441	1,379	1,558	11	1.2
18-21							220	296	2	0.1
Unknown						1	0	0	0
Total	11,309	10,897	11,241	11,388	11,675	12,185	12,982	14,060	100	1.3

Age/gender	Children starting to be looked after in year ending 31st March….								Percentage of 2007 total
Age/gender	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	Percentage of 2007 total
Male
Under 1	115	127	139	146	179	218	220	206	4
1-4	497	444	516	457	483	433	523	611	11
5-11	805	737	702	783	732	666	748	894	16
12-15	1,177	1,220	1,070	1,021	949	949	986	1,088	20
16-17	156	192	210	163	142	100	140	202	4
18-21							9	11	0
unknown						1	0	0	0
Total	2,750	2,720	2,637	2,570	2,485	2,367	2,626	3,012	55
Female
Under 1	122	107	120	123	187	182	195	207	4
1-4	398	377	427	393	417	424	470	571	10
5-11	585	578	583	568	626	589	545	690	13
12-15	797	782	781	753	750	695	810	849	16
16-17	120	130	130	108	100	74	79	127	2
18-21							8	13	0
unknown						1	0	0	0
Total	2,022	1,974	2,042	1,943	2,079	1,965	2,107	2,457	45
All people
Under 1	237	234	259	268	366	400	415	413	8
1-4	895	821	943	850	900	857	993	1,182	22
5-11	1,390	1,315	1,285	1,350	1,357	1,255	1,293	1,584	29
12-15	1,974	2,002	1,852	1,773	1,699	1,644	1,796	1,937	35
16-17	276	322	340	271	242	175	219	329	6
18-21							17	24	0
unknown						2	0	0	0
Total	4,771	4,694	4,678	4,513	4,564	4,333	4,733	5,469	100

Notes: Table excludes children who are on a planned series of short term placements.
Prior to 2007, table includes estimates wherever local authorities were not able to provide information.
Figures for 2006 are revised.
Prior to 2005 'unknowns' were allocated to a category rather than being reported as unknown. For this reason, totals do not always exactly equal the sum of their parts, due to rounding.
The number of looked after children aged 18+ was not asked for prior to 2006.
Bottom half of table records episodes of care which have begun. A child may start to be looked after more than once in a year and so may be counted more than once.
Changes between 2003-04 and 2004-05 are partly due to improved recording.
Rates per population are based on GRO(Scotland) 2006 mid-year population estimates. 18-21 is calculated as a percentage of 18 year olds. Total rates are calculated as a percentage of 0-18s.

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Table 2.1: Number of children looked after and number of children starting to be looked after 2000-2007 by age and gender