High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Care Leavers
Fifty seven per cent of young people ceasing to be looked after beyond minimum school leaving age during 1st August 2010 to 31st July 2011 had a pathway plan on the date they were discharged, and 73 per cent had a pathway coordinator.
There were 3,662 young people reported to be eligible for aftercare services on 31st July 2011.
Thirty six per cent of young people eligible for and receiving aftercare services and who had a known economic activity were in education, training or employment, a decrease of 1 percentage points on 2010.
In September 2009 the New Reporting Framework for the Educational Outcomes of Scotland’s Looked After Children and Young People was published. This new framework will report on the educational attainment of looked after children and will contain information on qualifications, attainment and exclusions. The first report containing this information was published in June 2011, and contains statistics on the educational outcomes of looked after children relating to the 2009-10 academic year. The publication can be found at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Children/EducOutcomesLAC
A copy of the framework document can be found at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/284726/0086480.pdf .
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