Children looked after who first taken into care during year ending 31 March 2006, by age when

Children looked after who first taken into care during year ending 31 March 2006, by age when
first taken into care^1,2,3,4

England		numbers
		2006
All Children^1,2		7,800

Age when first taken into care


0 to 7 days		670
8 to 14 days		260
15 to 21 days		110
22 days to under 1 month		100
Total 1 month		1,140
From 1 months to under 2 months		180
From 2 months to under 3 months		120
From 3 months to under 4 months		100
From 4 months to under 5 months		100
From 5 months to under 6 months		70
From 6 months to under 9 months		210
From 9 months to under 1 year		160
Total 1 year		2,080
From 1 years to under 2 years		630
From 2 years to under 3 years		580
From 3 years to under 4 years		470
From 4 years to under 5 years		400
From 5 years to under 6 years		380
From 6 years to under 7 years		370
From 7 years to under 8 years		360
From 8 years to under 9 years		350
From 9 years to under 10 years		340
10 years and over		1,800


1.	Source: DfES, SSDA903 return which in 2005-06 covered all children looked after by local authorities.
2.	Only children who were "taken" into care for the first time during 2005-06 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.	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.