School exclusions of children looked after by local authority and measure

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Local authority

Local authority 1

The number of school age children looked after at 31 March who had been continuously looked after for more than 12 months Data has been rounded to the nearest 5 for disclosure reasons

Data has been rounded to the nearest 5 for disclosure reasons

The total number of days for which looked after children of school age were excluded through fixed-period exclusions during the previous academic year

The number of school age children looked after at 31 March who had been continuously looked after for more than 12 months and had a fixed-period exclusion at any time during the previous academic

Wales

1,895

301

Wales

Isle of Anglesey

The data item is disclosive or not sufficiently robust for publication

Gwynedd

Conwy

Denbighshire

Flintshire

Wrexham

Powys

124

Ceredigion

Pembrokeshire

Carmarthenshire

Swansea

Neath Port Talbot

Bridgend

267

Vale of Glamorgan

Cardiff

124

Rhondda Cynon Taf

241

Merthyr Tydfil

Caerphilly

Blaenau Gwent

Torfaen

111

Monmouthshire

Newport

171

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Title

Children's services: Education summary

Last update

7 September 2016

Next update

No longer updated

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Performance management of children's social services (PM1) data collection, Welsh Government

Contact email

stats.pss@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local authorities

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

Education, referrals, assessments and social services provided to children by Welsh local authorities.

Data collection and calculation

The data were supplied to the Data Collection team within the Welsh Government by the 22 local authorities in Wales on form PM1. The form applies an extensive series of validation checks to ensure that the information provided is accurate and consistent.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Data are shown for each financial year from 2004-05.

Users, uses and context

Please find this information in the related statistical publication, as per the given weblink.

Rounding applied

The following measures have been taken to minimise the risk of unwanted disclosure of personal data:
Where there are between one and five children in some groups, the actual number has been suppressed, and replaced by the symbol *. Some groups have also benn rounded to the nearest 5.

Revisions information

None

Keywords

Children ; Social services

Weblinks

http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/referrals-assessments-social-services-children; http://gov.wales/docs/statistics/2013/130411-aggregate-pss-statistics-quality-report-en.pdf

Statistical quality

A number of data items are unavailable for 2015-16. The scope of the social services data collections was reduced for 2015-16 in order to ease the burden on local authorities while they made preparations for the change to data requirements for 2016-17, following the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 coming into force.

Please find information in the related statistical publication, or alongside further information on quality and methods in the Quality Report, as per the given weblinks.

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