Young People: Education

Tim Loughton
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what percentage of (a) all children and (b) looked-after children over the age of 16 years were in full-time education in each of the last five years.

Jim Knight
The information requested is shown in the following table.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|                                                                                                                                 |Looked after children1|All children2|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|2002                                                                                                                             |56                    |72           |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|2003                                                                                                                             |57                    |72           |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|2004                                                                                                                             |59                    |73           |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|2005                                                                                                                             |61                    |75           |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|2006                                                                                                                             |64                    |78           |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|1 Source: Outcome Indicators for Looked After Children survey. 2 Source: “The Connexions/Careers Service Annual Activity Survey”.|                      |             |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------