Looked After Children linkage data - Scotland

Summary

Abstract

A longitudinal dataset based on annual returns of administrative data on looked after children data supplied by local authorities to Scottish Government for statistical purposes. Looked after children are those children in the care of a local authority.

• Contact point
  statistics.enquiries@gov.scot
• Digital object identifier (DOI)
  Not available

Keywords

Publisher

• Identifier
  https://ror.org/04v2xmd71
• Name
  Scottish Government
• Logo
  
• Description
  https://www.gov.scot/about/contact-information/
• Contact point
  statistics.enquiries@gov.scot

Documentation

Description

• Associated media

  • Available resource files can be downloaded below.

    File name

    Adr S Data Sourcing Looked After Children Metadata

    Type

    .XLSX

    Download file
• Is part of
  • NOT APPLICABLE

Coverage

Spatial

• Spatial coverage

  Scotland

• Geographic levels
  council area

Temporal

• Start date
  01/04/2008
• End date
  31/07/2019
• Frequency
  Irregular
• Distribution release date
  Not available

Provenance

• Purpose
  Administrative
• Source
  Electronic survey
• Collection situation
  Local authority

Access and governance

• Conditions of access
  Access needs approval

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Usage

• Conditions of use
  Application of Statistical Disclosure Control
• Resource creator
  Scottish Government
• Is referenced by
  Not available

Access

• Access rights
  https://www.adruk.org/data-access/trusted-research-environments/#tab-c4819
• Access service
  Access to this data is through submitting a completed application form to the mailbox: statistics.enquiries@gov.scot. The application form is available here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-government-statistics-request-our-data/, Find out about accessing secure datasets for research at https://www.researchdata.scot/accessing-data/data-access-overview/
• Jurisdiction
  GB-SCT
• Data controller
  Scottish Government
• Data processor
  Not Applicable

Format and standards

• Language
  English
• Format
  Csv

Enrichment and linkage

• Related datasets
  • Not available
• Linkage opportunity
  These datasets have been created through the ADR Scotland programme to enable linkage by using the National Records of Scotland population spine. https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/national-records-of-scotland-indexing-team
• Tools
  • Not available

Synthetic data

Synthetic data is not yet available for this dataset.