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Children Accommodated in Secure Children's Homes at 31 March 2010: England and Wales, 07/07/10 [W]

The Department for Education has published statistics on Children Accommodated in Secure Children's Homes.

The Statistical First Release covers information on places approved and children accommodated by sex, age, length of stay and type of placement.

The key points from this release are:

260 children were accommodated in secure children's homes in England and Wales at 31 March 2010. This represents a fall of 10 per cent on the 2009 total of 290.
The number of secure children's homes, open at 31 March 2010 in England and Wales, is 17, a reduction of 2 since 2009.
At 31 March 2010, there were 310 approved places in these 17 secure children's homes open in England and Wales.
83 per cent of approved places were occupied. This represents a decrease of 3 percentage points since 2009.

The full release can be downloaded from the Department for Education website.

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