High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Thursday, November 27, 2008
Care Leavers
Fifty five per cent of young people ceasing to be looked after beyond minimum school leaving age during 2007-08 had a pathway plan on the date they were discharged, and fifty seven per cent had a pathway coordinator.
There were 3,765 young people reported to be eligible for aftercare services on 31st March 2008. However, as one local authority could not provide any data, figures regarding aftercare should be treated as provisional.
Forty two per cent of young people eligible for aftercare services with known economic activity were in education, training or employment, an increase of 4 percentage points on 2007.
No information on qualifications of care leavers was collected this year. This is because improvements are being made in the way information on looked after children is collected, which will enable more accurate figures on attainment of looked after children to be produced in the future. More information on this project can be found at the Data and Reporting page of the Learning and Teaching Scotland website:
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