The number of looked-after children of each year of age who have ceased to be looked after as a result of a special guardianship order in each year ending 31 March 2006 to 2009 can be found in the following table.
Special guardianship orders were first introduced on 30 December 2005. The figures for year ending 31 March 2006 only account for the last three months of the data collection year.
Number 20064 2007 2008 2009 Age on ceasing (years) 70 750 1,100 1,200 Under 1 10 60 120 110 1 10 130 190 190 2 10 70 120 120 3 — 70 100 100 4 10 60 70 100 5 10 40 70 80 6 — 40 50 70 7 — 50 70 80 8 10 40 60 70 9 — 40 50 50 10 — 30 60 50 11 — 30 40 60 12 — 20 30 40 13 — 20 30 40 14 0 10 30 40 15 — 20 30 20 16 0 10 20 20 17 0 10 10 — 1 Only the last occasion on which a child ceased to be looked after in the year has been counted. 2 Figures exclude children looked after under an agreed series of short-term placements. 3 To ensure that no individual can be identified from statistical tables, we use conventions for the rounding and suppression of very small numbers. National figures have been rounded to the nearest 100 if they exceed 1,000 or to the nearest 10 otherwise. Numbers of 5 or less have been suppressed and replaced with a long dash (—) except where the number is zero. 4 Special guardianship orders were introduced on 30 December 2005. Consequently figures for year ending 31 March 2006 only account for the last three months of the data collection year. Source: SSDA 903.