Spotlight on Kinship Care Using Census Microdata to Examine the Extent and Nature of Kinship Care in the UK at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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Spotlight on Kinship Care Using Census microdata to examine the extent and nature of kinship care in the UK at the turn of the Twentieth century Shailen Nandy, Julie Selwyn, Elaine Farmer and Paula Vaisey 1 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1 Defining kinship care 2 The Legal framework in England, Wales and Northern Ireland 2 The Legal framework in Scotland 3 Routes into kinship care 3 Financial and other support to carers in England 5 What is known about existing numbers of children living in kinship care? 6 CHAPTER 2 RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHOD 8 Design 8 The Population Census 8 The Controlled Access Microdata 11 Children looked After by Local Authorities in formal kinship care 13 Limitations of the study 15 CHAPTER 3 CHILDREN LIVING IN KINSHIP CARE IN THE UK IN 2001 17 Estimates of the extent of kinship care in 1991 17 Estimates of kinship care in 2001 19 Estimates of the extent of informal kinship care in the UK in 2001 21 CHAPTER 4 CHILDREN LIVING IN KINSHIP CARE IN ENGLAND 24 The age and gender of children living in kinship care in England 27 The ethnicity of children living in kinship care 29 Children’s Relationship to their KIn carers 35 Household Poverty and deprivation 36 CHAPTER 5 CHILDREN IN KINSHIP CARE IN SCOTLAND IN 2001 43 2 Scotland 43 Age and gender of children in kinship care in scotland 45 Ethnicity of children in kinship care in Scotland 47 Child’s Relationship to their kin carers 49 Household poverty and deprivation 50 CHAPTER 6 CHILDREN IN KINSHIP CARE IN WALES IN 2001 55 The age and gender of children living in kinship care in Wales 56 Ethnicity of Children in Kinship care In wales 57 Child’s Relationship to their kin carers 62 CHAPTER 7 CHILDREN IN KINSHIP CARE IN NORTHERN IRELAND 67 Age of children in kinship care in Northern Ireland 68 Ethnicity 70 Children’s Relationship to their kin carers 72 Household poverty and deprivation 73 CHAPTER 8 KINSHIP CARERS IN ENGLAND IN 2001 77 Kinship carers in England 78 CHAPTER 9 KINSHIP CARERS IN SCOTLAND 92 CHAPTER 10 KINSHIP CARERS IN WALES 103 CHAPTER 11 CONCLUSIONS 114 Aims and method 115 The number of Children living in kinship care in the UK 2001 116 Children in Kinship Care 119 3 the Children’s relationship to their Kinship carers 121 Kinship carers with a Limiting long-term illness or disability 124 Multiple deprivation 129 Differences between the UK countries 130 References 134 Appendix 1: Key Terms and Definitions 137 Appendix 2: Children in Kinship care: numbers and prevalence disaggregated by age and gender, England, Wales and Scotland, 1991 139 Appendix 3: Prevalence rates of KINSHIP CARE by local authority in 2001 140 Appendix 4: Number and distribution of all children in England by ethnic group and region, 2001 150 Appendix 5: Prevalence rates (%) of kinship care among children in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland by Occupational Social Class of HRP, 2001 152 Appendix 6: Regression results 153 Appendix 7: Numbers of Household reference persons by gender, 2001 157 Appendix 8: Country of birth of kinship carers in England, 2001 158 Appendix 9: Further information on Children living with Carers 159 Appendix 10: Kinship care by ethnicity in England in 2001, disaggregated ethnic groupings. 167 4 LIST OF TABLES Table 2.1: The Samples of Anonymised Records, 2001 11 Table 4.1: Children Living in Kinship Care in England, by Region, 2001 24 Figure 4.2: Prevalence of Kinship Care in London, 2001 26 Table 4.3 Kinship Care in England by Child’s Age Group, 2001 28 Table 4.4 The Ethnicity of Children in Kinship Care and the General Child Population by Numbers and Percentage in England 2001 30 Table 5.1: Kinship Care in Scotland, by Age Group, 2001 46 Table 5.2: Kinship Care Population in Scotland, by Ethnicity, 2001 47 Table 6.1: Kinship Care in Wales, by Age Group, 2001 56 Table 6.2: Kinship Care Population in Wales by Ethnicity, 2001 58 Table 7.1: Kinship Care in Northern Ireland, by Age Group, 2001 69 Table 7.2: Kinship Care Population in Northern Ireland by Ethnicity, 2001 70 Table 7.3: Distribution (%) of Children in Kinship Care and all Children in Northern Ireland, by Age, Gender and Ethnicity, 2001 71 Table 8.1: Mean Age of Parents and Kinship Carers in England, by Gender, 2001 79 Table 8.2: Number of Parents and Kinship Carers by Ethnicity, England 2001 81 Table 8.3: Marital Status of Parents and Kinship Carers in England, 2001 83 Table 8.4: Co-habiting Status of Parents and Kinship Carers by Gender, England 2001 84 Table 8.5: IMD Income Deprivation Distribution among Parents and Kinship Carers, England 2001 85 Table 8.6: Occupational Social Class of Parents and Kinship Carers by Gender, England, 2001 87 Table 8.7: Proportion of Parents/Kinship Carers with No Educational/Professional Qualifications, England 2001 88 Table 8.8: Proportion of parents and kinship carers reporting a limiting long-term illness or disability by gender, England 2001 89 Table 9.1: Mean Age of Birth Parents and Kinship Carers in Scotland, by Gender, 2001 93 Table 9.2: Marital Status of Parents and Kinship Carers in Scotland, 2001 95 Table 9.3: Marital Status of Parents and Kinship Carers in Scotland, 2001 96 Table 9.4: Index of Multiple Deprivation:Income quintile distribution among parents and kinship carers, Scotland 2001 97 Table 9.5: Occupational Social Class of Parents and Kinship Carers by Gender, Scotland, 2001 99 Table 9.6: Proportion of Parents/Kinship Carers with No Educational/Professional Qualifications, Scotland 2001 100 5 Table 9.7: Proportion of parents and kinship carers reporting an a limiting long-term illness or disability by gender (LLTI) by gender, Scotland 2001 101 Table 10.1: Mean Age of Parents and Kinship Carers in Wales, by Gender, 2001 104 Table 10.2: Number and Distribution of Parents and Kinship Carers by Ethnicity, Wales 2001 106 Table 10.3: Marital Status of Parents and Kinship Carers in Wales, 2001 107 Table 10.4: Co-habiting Status of Parents and Kinship Carers by Gender, Wales 2001 108 Table 10.5: IMD Income Quintile Distribution among Parents and Kinship Carers, Wales 2001 109 Table 10.6: Occupational Social Class of Parents and Kinship Carers, Wales, 2001 110 Table 10.7: Proportion of Parents/Kinship Carers with No Educational or Professional Qualifications, Wales 2001 111 Table 10.8: Proportion of Parents and Kinship Carers Reporting an LLTI by Gender, Wales 2001 111 6 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 3.1: Prevalence of kinship care among children in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2001 20 Figure 4.1: Prevalence of Kinship Care in England, 2001 25 Figure 4.2: Age Distributionof the Child Population and Children in Kinship Care in England 27 Figure 4.3: Prevalence Rates of Kinship Care in England, by Age and Gender, 2001 28 Figure 4.4: Distribution of Children in Kinship Care and all Children in England, by Age and Gender 29 Figure 4.5: Prevalence Rates of Kinship Care in England by Ethnicity, Age and Gender 31 Figure 4.6: Distribution (%) of Children in Kinship Care and all Children in England, by Age, Gender and Ethnicity, 2001 33 Figure 4.7: Ratio of Children in Kinship Care to all Children by Age, Gender and Ethnicity, England,34 Figure 4.8: Relationship of Children to Kinship Carer in England, 2001 (N=143,367) 35 Figure 4.9: Prevalence Rates of Kinship Care by IMD Income Quintile, England 2001 37 Figure 4.10: Distribution of Children in Kinship Care and % of all Children by IMD Income Quintile, England, 2001 38 Figure 4.11: Prevalence Rates of Kinship Care by Occupational Social Class of the Household Reference Person, England, 2001 39 Figure 5.1: Prevalence of Kinship Care among Children in Scotland, 2001 44 Figure 5.2: Age Distribution of the Child Population and Children in Kinship Care in Scotland 45 Figure 5.3 Distribution (%) of Children in Kinship Care and all Children in Scotland, by Age and Gender, 2001 46 Figure 5.4: Prevalence Rates (%) of Kinship Care in Scotland by Ethnicity, Age and Gender 48 Figure 5.5: Distribution (%) of Children in Kinship Care and all Children in Scotland, by Age, Gender and Ethnicity, 2001 48 Figure 5.6: Ratio of Children by Age, Gender and Ethnicity in Kinship Care to all Children, Scotland 49 7 Figure 5.7: Relationship of Children to Kinship Carer, Scotland, 2001 (N=15,433) 50 Figure 5.8: Prevalence Rates of Kinship Care by IMD Income Quintile, Scotland, 2001 51 Figure 5.9: Distribution of Children in Kinship Care and all Children by IMD Income Quintile, Scotland, 2001 51 Figure 5.10: Prevalence Rates of Kinship Care by the Occupational Social Class of the Household Reference Person, Scotland 2001 52 Figure 6.1: Prevalence (per 1000 children) of Kinship Care among Children in Wales, 2001 55 Figure 6.2: Age Distribution (%) of the Child Population and Children in Kinship Care in Wales, 2001 56 Figure 6.3: Distribution (%) of Children in Kinship Care and all Children in Wales, by Age and Gender, 2001 57 Figure 6.4: Prevalence Rates of Kinship Care in Wales by Ethnicity, Age and Gender, 2001 59 Figure 6.5: Distribution (%) of Children in Kinship Care and all Children in Wales, by Age, Gender and Ethnicity, 2001 60 Figure 6.6: Ratio of Children in Kinship Care to all Children by Age, Gender and Ethnicity, Wales, 2001 61 Figure 6.7: Relationship of Children to Kinship Carer, Wales, 2010 (N=9,200) 62 Figure 6.8: Prevalence Rates of Kinship Care by IMD Income Quintile, Wales, 2001 63 Figure 6.9: Distribution of Children in Kinship Care and all Children by IMD Income Quintile, Wales, 2001 63 Figure 6.10: Prevalence Rates by Occupational Social Class of HRP, Wales, 2001 64 Figure 7.1: Prevalence