Information on the number of children who have been taken into care under an interim or full care order, emergency protection order, under police protection or under a child assessment between 21 December and 5 January inclusive in England in each year since 1997, is shown in the following table.
Number Children taken into care during the Christmas/winter school holidays 19974 140 19985 190 19995 250 20005 260 20015 200 20025 200 20035 190 20044 210 20054 220 20064 230 1 Children who have been taken into care between 21 December until 5 January inclusive. 2 Children who have been taken into care under an interim or full care order, emergency protection order, under police protection or under a child assessment order. 3 Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short term placements. 4 Figures are derived from the SSDA903 system which collected information on all looked after children in 1996/97 and since 2003/04. 5 Figures are derived from the SSDA903 which collected information from a one third sample survey of all looked after children between 1997/98 and 2002/03.