Health and Care Series: Children Looked After Statistics 2006-07

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Table 1.19: Children ceasing to be looked after during 2006-07 by disability status

Main Disability

Specific learning difficulties

23

Mental Health problem

19

Autistic spectrum disorder

19

Hearing impairment

6

Language and communication disorder

*

Physical or motor impairment

27

Visual impairment

*

Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties

172

Learning disability

52

Combined Sight and Hearing Loss (deafblind)

*

Other chronic illness/disability

33

Multiple disabilities

11

No disabilitities

2,788

Unknown

986

Total looked after children

4,144

Notes: Figures include all episodes of ceasing to be looked after ( i.e. a child may be counted more than once).
East Renfrewshire did not provide this information. The total number of children ceasing to be looked after in 2006-07 in this authority has been included as "not known".
Cells containing * represent numbers that are suppressed to maintain confidentiality.

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