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Looked After Children Wales (LACW)

Population Size

Not reported

Years

1999 - 2022

Associated BioSamples

None/not available

Geographic coverage

United Kingdom

Wales

Lead time

2-6 months

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

Children, Welsh, SAIL, core-res, LACW, Health & Wellbeing, Children & Young People, Welsh Government

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