Children looked after who were taken into care for the first time during the year ending 31 March 1995 by age when first taken into care and by reason for ceasing to be looked after or placement at 31 March 20061,2,3,4,5,6
England																				numbers
				Reasons for ceasing to be looked after										Still looked after at 31 March 2006
			All Children	Returned to parents	Adopted	Died	Independent living	Residence order granted	Transferred to adult care	Moved to care of another authority	Other reasons (unspecified)	Reason unknown4		Foster Care	Placed for adoption	Placed with parents	Independent living	Children's Homes	Other accom      modation	Changed to respite care
All Children1,2			5,500	120	590	20	170	-	20	20	300	3,600		460	10	-	60	80	40	-
Age when first taken into care3
Under 1 month			430	10	150	-	0	0	0	-	-	230		20	-	0	-	-	0	0
From 1 months to under 2 months			120	-	30	-	0	-	0	0	-	60		10	-	0	-	-	0	0
From 2 months to under 3 months			100	-	20	-	0	0	0	0	-	60		10	0	0	0	0	0	0
From 3 months to under 4 months			90	-	20	0	0	0	0	0	-	50		10	0	0	0	0	0	0
From 4 months to under 5 months			70	0	20	0	0	0	0	0	-	50		-	0	0	0	-	0	0
From 5 months to under 6 months			60	-	10	0	0	0	0	-	0	40		-	0	0	0	-	0	0
From 6 months to under 9 months			160	-	30	-	0	0	0	0	-	110		20	0	0	-	-	0	0
From 9 months to under 1 year			150	0	40	0	0	0	0	-	-	90		20	0	0	-	-	0	0
Under 1 year total			1,180	10	320	0	0	0	0	0	0	690
From 1 years to under 2 years			480	10	80	-	0	0	0	-	-	300		60	-	0	10	-	0	-
From 2 years to under 3 years			450	20	70	0	0	-	0	0	10	270		70	0	0	10	10	0	-
From 3 years to under 4 years			390	10	40	-	0	-	0	0	10	230		70	-	-	10	20	0	0
From 4 years to under 5 years			370	10	40	0	-	-	0	-	-	200		90	0	0	10	20	-	0
From 5 years to under 6 years			290	10	20	-	-	0	0	-	-	150		60	0	0	10	10	20	0
From 6 years to under 7 years			280	10	-	-	20	-	-	0	40	140		30	-	0	-	10	20	0
From 7 years to under 8 years			240	10	-	-	40	0	-	0	60	130		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
From 8 years to under 9 years			250	10	-	-	40	0	10	-	60	130		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
From 9 years to under 10 years			240	10	-	0	30	0	-	0	40	150		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10 years and over			1,400	10	-	0	30	0	-	10	50	1,300		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1.	Source: DfES, SSDA903 return which between 1994-05 & 1996-07 and since 2003-04 covered all children looked after by local authorities. SSDA903
	covered only a one-third sample of children looked after by local authorities between 1997-98 and 2002-03.
2.	Only children who were "taken" into care for the first time during 1994-05 have been included. This includes some who may have started a previous
	period of care in an earlier year where they were not "taken into care" at the outset.
3.	"Children taken into care" are children who started to be looked after under the following legal statuses: interim or full care orders, and police protection
	or emergency protection or child assessment orders. They exclude children freed for adoption or for whom a placement order was granted, they exclude
	children under voluntary accommodation and they also exclude children under youth justice legal statuses.
4.	"Reason unknown": In April 2000, a new coding system was introduced. As a consequence, there are some cases, where a child ceased to be looked
	after before April 2000 and it's pre 2000 code for 'reason ceased to be looked after' cannot be directly translated to a single code under the post
	2000 code in the new system. Extraction of data only allows a child's history to be viewed from the perspective of the current coding system.
	Therefore the reason for ceasing appears as "unknown". This category also includes children who ceased to be  looked after between 1997-08 and
	2002-03 and who were excluded from the one-third sample.
5.	To maintain the confidentiality of each individual child, data at national level are rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 or to the nearest 10 otherwise.
	Where the number was 5 or less (other than 0) this has been suppressed and replaced with a hyphen (-). As a consequence of our rounding and suppression,
	figures may not sum to the total.
6.	Historical data may differ from older publications. This is mainly due to the implementation of amendments and corrections sent by some local authorities
	after the publication date of previous materials.