Children's Social Work Statistics Scotland: 2021 to 2022
Children's Social Work Statistics for Scotland for 2021 to 2022, including data on children on the child protection register, as well as children and young people looked after, in continuing care, eligible for aftercare, and in secure care accommodation.
An errata was published on 02/05/2023. The HTML and Word document have been updated as a result of changes to Publication Tables 2.9 and 2.10, and Additional Tables 2.13 and 5.1 – 5.7. Key headline statistics to have changed are as follows:
- on 31 July 2022, 696 (change from 687) young people were in continuing care – up 24% on 31 July 2021 (pages 3 and 46 of the Word document)
- on 31 July 2022, 8,132 (change from 8,053) young people were eligible for aftercare services – up 11% (change from 10%) on 31 July 2021 (pages 4 and 47 of the Word document)
- on 31 July 2022, 4,108 (change from 4,021) young people were receiving aftercare services – up 5% (change from 2%) on 2020-21 (pages 4 and 47 of the Word document)
- headline statistics infographic for these corresponding changes (page 2 of the Word document)
On 13/06/2023 Additional Table 4.2 percentage calculations were updated to refer to percentage across local authorities in place of percentage across Scotland.
On 28/11/2023 Additional Tables file was re-uploaded to the corrected version.
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