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As of the 31st March there are a total of 1164 Children in Care (CIC). The majority of Children in Care are in Fostering placements totalling 69% of placements. This is either in our inhouse foster placement (42%), External Fostering (17%), Kinship at 8% or placed at a family home (2%). This supports our strategic intention to keep children in a home environment with families.

3% of our children are placed for adoption. 29% of our looked after children are placed outside of a fostering placement. In these cases 17% are placed within a Supported Accommodationt setting. 6% within a mainstream setting and 3% within lodgers or other registered provision. It is the Council’s intention to ensure where children are placed outside of a fostering setting that in the child or young person is supported to be in the most appropriate placement.

The pie chart below provides a visual presentation of total proportion of placements broken down by placement type.

67 CYP are within Registered Children’s and young people Homes
34 CYP are within Registered CWD Residential Homes
198 CYP are within Supported Accommodation
486 CYP are within In-House Fostering
19 CYP are within Support Lodgings Accommodation
198 CYP are within External Fostering (IFA)
95 CYP are within Kinship Fostering
32 CYP placed for Adopted
28 CYP are placed with a parent
7 CYP are within other Registered/ Regulated Provisions

CIC at 31 March by placement: % Foster placements

Recently fostering placements within ECC have dropped by 3%. On another slide that highlights an upturn in SMC who use SA services. This can also be seen in the right hand graph that external services have risen by 14%. Since as the graph shown below is in percentages and not numbers there may be a smaller value change than the graph suggests.

LAC at 31 March by placement: % Secure units, Children’s Residential Homes and SA

ECC use a child and young person centred approach to find the most suitable placement for each LAC. When children cannot safely remain with their families, ECC seek to provide high quality substitute care. Seeking family settings but otherwise in matched high-quality residential homes. These are sourced as near as possible to their home locality to maintain links with their families and communities.

CIC at 31 March by placement location: % Placed within the local authority boundary

ECC remain consistent to ensure LAC have placements within their local boundary to promote close bonds to their families and familiar settings. There hasn’t been an increase in the percentage, ECC remain higher in comparison to national and statistical neighbour figures. At 79%, ECC have managed to maintain this level of capacity for LAC placements with an intention to improve this trend.

Please note that there is a lack of data ECC and statistical neighbours for the dates 2018-19 and represented as 0 on this graph

CIC at 31 March by placement location: % Placed outside of the local authority boundary and over 20 miles from the child’s home

ECC has had a reduction in LAC being placed outside of their local authority boundary and over 20 miles from the child’s home. This is reflecting a 7% drop from the previous year. A main contributing factor being the individuals need that may require complex care, needing appropriate services. ECC have put emphasis on engaging with providers and sourcing suitable accommodation locally. In turn improve on capacity and ability to place individuals locally.

Children and Young People in Placements with Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP)

As of the 31st March there were a total of 175 Children in Care with a EHCP. Approximately 75% of these EHCPs are for males, vs 25% for females.

Key Findings:

The most common category of need for both cohorts is Social Emotional Mental Health, accounting for females 42% and males 50% cohorts.
The second most common need for the female cohort is Cognition and Learning, accounting for 33% of all female with EHCPs.
The second most common need for male cohort is Communication and Interaction, accounting for 33% of all males with EHCPs
75% of all males with EHCP have ASD listed as their SEN Primary Need, compared to 7% of the female cohort.

Both male and female cohorts have similar proportions with Social Emotional Mental Health as the SEN Primary Need; the proportion of females is 41% and for males is 48%.

The table below provides the number of children broken down by sex that have a EHCP need

Category of EHCP Need	Female	Male
Cognition and Learning	14	18
Communication and Interaction	8	43
Sensory / Physical / Medical	<5	<5
Social Emotional Mental Health	18	66

The table below provides the percentage of children broken down by sex that have a EHCP need

Category of EHCP Need	Female	Male
Cognition and Learning	33%	14%
Communication and Interaction	19%	33%
Sensory / Physical / Medical	7%	4%
Social Emotional Mental Health	42%	50%

Last updated: 31/10/2023

Last updated: 28/03/2024

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