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Today, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published an article detailing children living in households without their parents but with other relatives.
Main points of analysis
- Children living in kinship care are defined as people aged 17 years and under on Census Day, who lived in households without a parent present, but with relatives aged 18 years or over.
- Of all children aged 0 to 17 years living in households of five people or fewer, 1.1% were living in kinship care (121,000 children).
- Most children living in kinship care (59.2%) live with at least one grandparent, so the characteristics of potential kinship carers reflect that it is an older population.
- The analysis explores characteristics of children in kinship care, and their households, such age, ethnic group, religion, country of birth, health and disability, employment status of kinship carers and household deprivation.
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