Table 2.5: Number of children looked after 2000-2008 by disability status
| Children looked after on 31 March… | Percentage of 2008 total |
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2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
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Specific learning difficulties | | | | | | | | 53 | 45 | 0 |
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Mental Health problem | 23 | 26 | 19 | 20 | 24 | 10 | 15 | 26 | 17 | 0 |
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Autistic spectrum disorder | 31 | 51 | 68 | 46 | 64 | 66 | 74 | 86 | 93 | 1 |
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Hearing impairment | 13 | 15 | 20 | 19 | 24 | 15 | 22 | 28 | 26 | 0 |
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Language and communication disorder | 35 | 31 | 17 | 65 | 42 | 41 | 37 | 39 | 36 | 0 |
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Physical or motor impairment | 92 | 140 | 96 | 136 | 113 | 84 | 75 | 112 | 100 | 1 |
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Visual impairment | 18 | 46 | 17 | 14 | 28 | 22 | 20 | 26 | 29 | 0 |
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Social, emotional and behavioural difficulties | 1,167 | 1,150 | 1,262 | 802 | 1,120 | 874 | 718 | 749 | 633 | 4 |
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Learning disability | 257 | 302 | 254 | 268 | 349 | 265 | 239 | 232 | 217 | 1 |
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Combined Sight and Hearing Loss (deafblind) | | | | | | | | 6 | * | 0 |
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Other chronic illness/disability | 122 | 109 | 133 | 135 | 121 | 84 | 76 | 147 | 103 | 1 |
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Multiple disabilities | 116 | 135 | 124 | 85 | 135 | 115 | 108 | 104 | 193 | 1 |
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No disabilitities | 9,436 | 8,893 | 9,230 | 9,797 | 9,655 | 8,138 | 8,313 | 9,189 | 11,328 | 76 |
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Not known | | | | | | 2,471 | 3,285 | 3,263 | * | 14 |
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Total | 11,309 | 10,897 | 11,241 | 11,388 | 11,675 | 12,185 | 12,982 | 14,060 | 14,886 | 100 |
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Notes: Table excludes children who are on a planned series of short term placements.
Figures for 2008 are provisional and may be revised in 2008-09.
Prior to 2008, table includes estimates wherever local authorities were not able to provide information.
In 2000 to 2004 children with unreported disability status were allocated to a group rather than being presented as 'unknown'. For this reason, some totals do not exactly equal the sum of their component parts due to the effects of rounding.
The definitions of some disabilities changed in 2007:
"Significant Learning Disability" was replaced by the two categories of "Specific Learning Difficulties" and "Learning Disability". For 2000-2006, all those in the "Significant Learning Disability" category have been included in the latter.
"Significant hearing impairment" was replaced by "Hearing impairment", which may cause a discontinuity in the "hearing impairment" category between 2006 and 2007.
"Significant Language and Communication Disorder" was replaced by "Language and Communication Disorder", which may cause a discontinuity in the "Language and Communication Disorder" category between 2006 and 2007.
"Significant Physical or Motor Impairment" was replaced by "Physical or Motor Impairment", which may cause a discontinuity in the "Physical or Motor Impairment" category between 2006 and 2007.
"Significant Visual Impairment" was replaced by "Visual Impairment", which may cause a discontinuity in the "Visual Impairment" category between 2006 and 2007.
The "Combined Sight and Hearing Loss (Deafblind)" category was added in 2007.
"Other Disability" was replaced by "Other Chronic Illness/Disability", which may cause a discontinuity in the "Other Chronic Illness/Disability" category between 2006 and 2007.
The "No Disability - but affected by disability" and "No disability - and not affected by disability" categories were combined into "No disabilities". For 2000-2006 the "No Disabilities" category uses the sum of these figures.
The full definitions of these disabilities can be found in the Guidance Notes accompanying the 2007-08 CLAS form at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Children/FormCLASnotes2007-08
Cells containing * represent numbers that are suppressed to maintain confidentiality.