On 31st March 2018, there were 6,405 children looked after in Wales, almost 1,900 more children than were looked after in 2006. Over that time Wales has consistently had more children looked after per 10,000 of the population than the rest of the UK, and that gap has widened.
Within Wales, while most Local Authorities have seen a rise in both the number and rate of children looked after, there is significant variation; and some have seen the rate of children looked after fall since 2014. Using published data, this report explores what we can say about the factors that are driving these trends.
The following infographics drawing on our data analysis show the kinds of placements children in Wales are in and where they’re placed.
(Report updated July 2019)
Read all our work on children looked after here.
DOI reference: 10.54454/20190514