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Data Provider: Welsh Government Experimental Statistics Children receiving care and support by asylum seeker status, gender and looked after status
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Gender 1[Filter]
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Child Status 1
Click here to sortNot asylum seekersClick here to sortUnaccompanied asylum seekersClick here to sortMembers of asylum-seeking familiesClick here to sortAll children receiving care and support
[Collapse]All children receiving care and support16,325702016,420
All children receiving care and supportChildren looked after at 31 March6,6056556,675
Children on the child protection register, but not looked after at 31st March2,210**2,215
Children receiving care and support, but not looked after, and not on the child protection register at 31st March7,5105157,530

Metadata

Title
Children receiving care and support by asylum seeker status, gender and looked after status

Last update
March 2020 March 2020

Next update
February 2021 (provisional)

Publishing organisation
Welsh Government

Source 1
Children Receiving Care and Support Census

Contact email
stats.pss@gov.wales

Designation
Experimental statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation
Wales

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
An asylum seeker is someone who has lodged an application for protection on the basis of the Refugee Convention or Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, who is awaiting a decision on that application.

Data collection and calculation
Anonymised individual child level data is extracted from local authority administrative systems and returned electronically to the Data Collection team within the Welsh Government using an online secure data transfer system called 'AFON'. The AFON system applies an extensive series of validation checks to ensure that the information provided uses the correct codes and is internally consistent.

Frequency of publication
Annual

Data reference periods
Data are shown at 31 March for each year.

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. All figures have been rounded to the nearest five. Where there are less than five children in any group, the actual number has been suppressed, and replaced by the symbol *.

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

Keywords
Children; Children receiving care and support; Gender; Asylum Seeker