Looked after children linkage data - Scotland

Description

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.

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• Publisher
  Scottish Government
• Contact
  statistics.enquiries@gov.scot
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Key Details

• Activity that generated the dataset
  No information available
• Conforms to
  No information available
• Creator
  Chris Wood
• Documentation
  The dataset comprises annual returns provided by local authorities that were sent to Scottish Government. The data are contained in two tables. Placement dataset with one record per care placement per child giving details of child characteristics, dates and details of episodes of care, and dates and details of care placements. Legal reasons dataset with one record per legal reason for care per child giving details of child characteristics, dates and legal reasons.
• End time period of data covered by this dataset
  2019-07-31
• Formal release or publication date
  2023-07-27
• Geographic Area
  Scotland
• Landing page
  No information available
• Language
  English
• Provenance
  No information available
• Start time period of data covered by this dataset
  2008-04-01
• The dataset type
  dataset
• Theme/category
  No information available
• Update frequency
  irregular

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