Information on children on care orders and in placements, adoptions from care and numbers of children and young persons leaving care for April 2017 to March 2018.
This is not the latest release in the series: Children looked after by local authorities
Series information:
Main points
- 6,407 children were looked after on 31 March 2018, an increase of 464 (8%) on the previous year and a rate of 102 per 10,000 population aged under 18.
- Of the 2,162 children starting to be looked after in 2017-18, 1,386 (64%) were due to abuse or neglect.
- There were 647 (10%) children looked after at 31 March 2018 who had three or more placements in 2017-18.
- There were 308 children adopted from care in 2017-18, a decrease of 7 (2%) on the previous year.
Reports
Children looked after by local authorities, April 2017 to March 2018 (experimental statistics) , file type: PDF, file size: 692 KB
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Contact
Rhys Strafford
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Email: stats.pss@gov.wales
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Media
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