Statistics Publication Notice: Health and Care Series: Children's Social Work Statistics 2009/10
Statistics publication of Child Protection and Secure Care and Close Support Accommodation
TABLE 18: YOUNG PEOPLE ADMITTED TO SECURE CARE AND CLOSE SUPPORT ACCOMMODATION: PLACEMENT PRIOR TO ADMISSION AND REASON FOR ADMISSION, BY GENDER, 2009-10
Placement Prior to admissions during the year
Parental home, relatives or friends |
Foster care or children's home |
Residential school |
Young offenders institution or prison |
Secure accommodation |
Other or unknown |
Total |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Secure Care Accommodation |
|||||||
Males |
97 |
23 |
43 |
6 |
15 |
17 |
201 |
Females |
32 |
40 |
18 |
0 |
9 |
13 |
112 |
Total |
129 |
63 |
61 |
6 |
24 |
30 |
313 |
Close Support Accommodation |
|||||||
Males |
7 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
16 |
Females |
1 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
31 |
1 |
39 |
Total |
8 |
4 |
0 |
2 |
40 |
1 |
55 |
Legal reason for admissions during the year
Section 44(1) |
Section 205 |
Section 208 |
Section 72(1) |
Section 70 |
Place of safety order or warrant |
Committal to place of safety or temporary detention - Section 51 |
Pending decision by the Reporter |
Other or unknown |
Total |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Secure Care Accommodation |
||||||||||
Males |
1 |
1 |
16 |
23 |
20 |
25 |
60 |
14 |
41 |
201 |
Females |
1 |
0 |
2 |
7 |
19 |
38 |
6 |
11 |
28 |
112 |
Total |
2 |
1 |
18 |
30 |
39 |
63 |
66 |
25 |
69 |
313 |
Notes: Table includes admissions made after 31/03/2009 and before 01/04/2010
Young people are counted once for each time they are admitted to secure and close support accommodation.
Information on close support accommodation was collected for the first time in 2010. Reported usage relates only to close support care provided in dedicated close support units, and does not include any close support provided in alternative settings.
'Other' placement prior to admission may include supported accommodation, independent living, hospital or assessment centre.
Legal reason for admission:
Order made under section 44(1) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.
Order made under section 205 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.
Order made under section 208 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.
Transferred to the unit under section 72(1) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995. This is a new category.
Supervision requirement under section 70 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, to which is attached a condition authorising the use of Secure Accommodation.
Place of safety order or warrant made under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, authorising the use of Secure Accommodation.
Committal to secure accommodation, a place of safety or other temporary detention is made under sect. 51 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.
Placement, under the Secure Accommodation (Scotland) Regulations 1996, of child in secure accommodation on the authority of the chief social work officer and the person in charge of the establishment, pending a decision by the
Reporter that a Children's Hearing does not require to be arranged or the convening of a Hearing to consider the case.
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