Educational Outcomes for Scotland's Looked After Children 2010/11

Table 8 shows that the average tariff score for looked after children who left school during 2010/11 was 79, compared to 385 for all school leavers. However, this comparison is influenced by the fact that 88 per cent of looked after children who left school during 2010/11 were aged 16 years or under when they left school, compared to only 34 per cent of all school leavers being of this age when leaving school.

The average tariff score for looked after children who left school during the 2010/11 academic year of 79 was 12 points higher than the average tariff score for looked after children in 2009/10 of 67.

Looking at the average tariff score of looked after children leaving school, compared with all school leavers, by age at leaving school shows that looked after children had, on average, lower tariff scores when leaving school compared with children of the same age who leave school.

Table 8: Average tariff scores of all school leavers and those who were looked after children, by age, 2009/10 and 2010/11