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

Table 12 shows that when comparing the destination types at the initial and follow-up destination surveys it was found that only 46 per cent of looked after children who left school during 2010/11 were in a positive destination in both surveys, compared with 83 per cent for all school leavers. However, this is a 10 percentage point increase for looked after children school leavers from 2009/10 compared to a 3 percentage point increase for all school leavers.

Eighteen per cent of looked after children who left school in 2010/11 and who were initially in a positive destination were reported as being in a negative destination at the time of the follow up survey, compared to this only being the case for 6 per cent of all 2010/11 school leavers. Conversely, 9 per cent of looked after children school leavers who were initially in a negative destination were reported as being in a positive destination at the time of the follow up survey.

Twenty-seven per cent of looked after children who left school in 2010/11 were in a negative destination at the time of both destination surveys, compared to only 6 per cent for all 2010/11 school leavers.

Table 12: Percentage of school leavers by sustained destination for all school leavers and those who are looked after children, 2010/11