Statistics Publication Notice: Health and Care Series: Educational Outcomes for Scotland's Looked After Children, 2009/10

Table 7 shows that the average tariff score for looked after children who left school during 2009/10 was 67, compared to 372 for all school leavers. However, this comparison is influenced by the fact that around 90 per cent of looked after children who left school during 2009/10 were aged 16 years or under when they left school, compared to only 37 per cent of all school leavers being of this age when leaving school.

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 7: Average tariff scores of all school leavers and those who were looked after children, by age, 2009/10.