Freedom of information response

Looked After Children

Publication date: 
Monday 19 August 2024
Request: 

1 . The number of Looked After Children (LAC) in your local authority who between the ages of 16-18 are living or did live in independent living placements. Please provide the numbers of LACs living in independent living placements broken down by year from 2014 to the most recent statistics possible, ideally present day. If records as far back as 2014 are not kept, please provide records from the earliest date you have them until the most recent statistics available.
 
2. The number of Looked After Children (LAC) in your local authority who between the ages of 16-18 are living or lived in semi-independent living placements. Please provide the numbers of LACs living in semi-independent living placements broken down by year from 2014 to the most recent statistics possible, ideally present day. If records as far back as 2014 are not kept, please provide records from the earliest date you have them until the most recent statistics available.
 
3. The number of independent living properties that the local authority have in their boundary and the number of them that are Ofsted approved.
 
4. The total number of 16-18 year olds in your local authority who are/were Looked After Children between 2014-present day. If records as far back as 2014 are not kept, please provide records from the earliest date you have them until the most recent statistics available.

Response: 

1 . The number of Looked After Children (LAC) in your local authority who between the ages of 16-18 are living or did live in independent living placements. Please provide the numbers of LACs living in independent living placements broken down by year from 2014 to the most recent statistics possible, ideally present day. If records as far back as 2014 are not kept, please provide records from the earliest date you have them until the most recent statistics available.

See table below

2. The number of Looked After Children (LAC) in your local authority who between the ages of 16-18 are living or lived in semi-independent living placements. Please provide the numbers of LACs living in semi-independent living placements broken down by year from 2014 to the most recent statistics possible, ideally present day. If records as far back as 2014 are not kept, please provide records from the earliest date you have them until the most recent statistics available.

See table below:

Date

Number CLA

Placement Code H5 (semi-independent)

Placement Code P2 (independent living)

31 March 2016

332

0

47

31 March 2017

334

0

52

31 March 2018

298

0

26

31 March 2019

290

0

31

31 March 2020

298

21

5

31 March 2021

298

22

0

31 March 2022

293

25

0

31 March 2023

293

43

0

13/05/2024

291

42

0

3. The number of independent living properties that the local authority have in their boundary and the number of them that are Ofsted approved.

Number of supported accommodation homes:13

Number registered with Ofsted: 5

Number where there is an application with Ofsted pending registration: 8

These are semi-independent accommodation.

We do not hold a list of ‘independent living properties’.

4. The total number of 16-18 year olds in your local authority who are/were Looked After Children between 2014-present day. If records as far back as 2014 are not kept, please provide records from the earliest date you have them until the most recent statistics available.

See above table.

Request reference:
FOI 14117