Prior to April 2016, data was collected about the activities and status of care leavers on their 19th birthday as part of the annual Outcome Collection (OC) return*. This includes information about whether the local authority had remained in touch with the young person, their education, training or employment status and the suitability of their accommodation.
Within SAIL, this dataset must be linked to the primary Children Looked After census (LACW) to get child characteristics (week of birth, gender, ALF).
The Outcomes Collection return was a series of annual returns made by local authorities with respect to care leavers. The OC1 focused on educational qualifications at 16 and the OC3 focused on their circumstances on their 19th birthday.
The OC2 focused on children who had been continuous looked after for 12 months, compiling information at a local authority level with respect to offending, health promotion checks, immunisations, dental checks, health assessments and substance misuse problem identification and intervention. This information is now collected as part of the Children Receiving Care and Support return. Prior to 2016, it was part of the Children in Need return.
| Data Owner | Welsh Government |
| Earliest Data | 1st April 2002 |
| Last Data | 31st March 2016 |
| Frequency of Updates | No longer updated |
| Lag in Updates Becoming Available | No longer updated |
Meta Data
| ADR UK Catalogue | https://datacatalogue.adruk.org/browser/dataset?id=5462644471927188424&origin=3 |
| Health Data Gateway | https://web.www.healthdatagateway.org/dataset/85a369d9-58b3-49a9-94e1-9dc05de8ea49 |
| Data Resource | Allnatt, G., Lee, A., Scourfield, J., Elliott, M., Broadhurst, K., and Griffiths, L. (2022) “Data resource profile: children looked after administrative records in Wales”, International Journal of Population Data Science, 7(1). doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v7i1.1752. |
| Data Insight | Allnatt, G., Elliott, M., Cowley, L., Lee, A., North, L., Broadhurst, K., and Griffiths, L. (2023) Data Explained: Children Looked After Datasets. Available from: https://adrwales.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Data-Explained-CLA-datasets_final.pdf |
| Other useful publications | N/A |
Other useful information
Local Authority Guidance:
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From 2016-17 onwards, outcomes for care leavers on their 19th birthday are no longer captured.
Aggregate data from 2003 to 2016 is available on the Stats Wales website: https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Health-and-Social-Care/Social-Services/Childrens-Services/Children-Looked-After/Care-Leavers-at-19th-Birthday
The data provisioned in SAIL databank consists of 4,940 records for 4,890 children.
