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Catalogue description Children in Care: 1978 dataset
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| Reference: | BN 98/2 |
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| Title: | Children in Care: 1978 dataset |
| Description: | This dataset provide information about children in the care of local authorities in 1978. The data collected is stored in two tables, the Child table and the Episode table. The Child table provides the local authority code, the child's ID code, the sex and the date of birth of each child and the number of care episodes relating to that child in the Episode table. The Episode table lists the child's ID code and the data for all the care episodes relevant to each child. To gather the information concerning the children in their care, local authorities used the SSDA 903 form, from which the CIC data is derived. The form was used to record essential information about each child - their sex and date of birth and all the care episodes relevant to each child. A care episode is defined as that period in which the child is continuously in the care of an individual local authority without a change of legal status of the child. It is believed that the prefix 'SSDA' was an acronym devised from the words 'Social Service Departments Activity'. To identify the children one 903 form was completed per child per statistical year. However local authorities did not provide unique child identification numbers, individual child records cannot be linked from year to year, so this is not a longitudinal database. The original identifiers entered on each 903 form were known as 'sheet numbers'. These have since been deleted from the system, and unique child identifiers have been allocated by the system. However analysis of individual child histories across more than one year cannot be undertaken. Data is held for both England and Wales. |
| Date: | 1978 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in The National Archives: | CRDA/38/DS/1978 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Open on Transfer |
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