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Looked After Children Wales (LACW)

Population Size

Not reported
Population Size statistic card

Years

1999 - 2022

Years statistic card

Associated BioSamples

None/not available

Associated BioSamples statistic card

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

Wales

Geographic coverage statistic card

Lead time

2-6 months

Lead time statistic card

Summary

Information about Looked After Children Wales. Includes demographic and episode level information.

Documentation

The primary dataset containing information relating to Looked After Children in Wales (LACW). It is an annual census that includes individual demographic and episode level information of care that a child has received that year.

Subsets of this main dataset include: Looked After Children Adoption (LACA); Looked After Children Care Leavers aged 16 and over (LACC); Looked After Children Birthday 19 (LACB: 1999 - 2016); and Looked after Children - Education Qualifications (LACE). LACE was discontinued in 2016 (1999 - 2016) and included within LACW.

Due to the small number of looked after children with an Anonymised Linkage Field (ALF, 37%), a two-stage algorithm was developed. This algorithm utilises other datasets within SAIL to allocate children within the LACW ALF, increasing the overall ALF match rate to 61%. The improved ALFs are available in the LAC ALF DERIVED table.

Dataset type

Health and disease

Dataset sub-type

Not applicable

Associated media

https://saildatabank.com/about-us/https://ijpds.org/article/view/1752https://adrwales.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Data-Explained-CLA-datasets_final.pdfhttps://ijpds.org/article/view/2383/

Keywords

Observations

Observed Node

Disambiguating Description

Measured Value

Measured Property

Observation Date

Events

Approx 70-80% coverage of Welsh population through GP registrations.

3000000

Count

31 Aug 2021

Provenance

Purpose of dataset collection

Administrative

Source of data extraction

EPR

Collection source setting

Community

Patient pathway description

Administrative. Linkable to health datasets across patient pathway.

Image contrast

Not stated

Biological sample availability

None/not available

Structural Metadata

Details

Publishing frequency

Annual

Version

20.0.0

Modified

08/10/2024

Citation Requirements

Welsh Goverment

Coverage

Start date

20/06/1999

End date

28/03/2022

Time lag

2-6 months

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom, Wales

Maximum age range

18

Follow-up

Other

Accessibility

Language

en

Controlled vocabulary

LOCAL

Format

SQL database table

Data Access Request

Dataset pipeline status

Available

Access rights

https://saildatabank.com/data/apply-to-work-with-the-data/

Time to dataset access

2-6 months

Access request cost

Data provision is free from SAIL. Overall project costing depends on the number of people that require access to the SAIL Gateway, the activities that SAIL needs to complete (e.g. loading non-standard datasets), data refreshes, analytical work required, disclosure control process, and special case technological requirements.

Access method category

TRE/SDE

Access service description

The SAIL Databank is powered by the UK Secure e-Research Platform (UKSeRP). Following approval through safeguard processes, access to project-specific data within the secure environment is permitted using two-factor authentication.

Jurisdiction

GB-WLS

Data use limitation

General research use

Data use requirements

Project-specific restrictions,Time limit on use,User-specific restriction

Data Controller

SAIL Databank

Data Processor

SAIL Databank

Dataset Types: Health and disease

Collection Sources: Community

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