In receipt of services Pupil is in receipt of any children’s children’s social work services. This includes being looked after at home or in any form of care, on the child protection register, receiving through care and after care, or looking for prospective adopters. Taken from the local authority SWIFT, SWIS, or in-house social work database. Derived variables Note that variables which are created from combining answer categories as provided in the questionnaire are not noted below. Household Derived from Two parent households were defined as those type (all questions about in which the child reported living with both a surveys) who the child mother and father lived with One parent households were defined as those (secondary in which the child reported living with either a school mother or a father, but not both, and not questionnaire someone described as the mother or father’s Q21a / primary partner school Step-families were defined as those in which questionnaire the child reported living with either the mother ChHome1) or father, and the mother or partner father’s Other household types were those in which the child reported living with neither their mother nor father. This could include living with Derived from grandparents, in foster care, in a care home, or questions about with someone else. relationships between In some cases, children reported living with both household parents and one of their partners. This parents’ members was taken to be a step-family, as it was assumed (parent survey the partner and the father were the same mother’s questionnaire person, but not the biological father (and similarly Relation) for partner). father’s Similarly, those who reported living with parents and foster parents were assumed to be a foster family (hence household type). ‘other’ The questionnaire did not allow someone to say they lived with two mothers or two fathers. Such
In receipt of children’s services Pupil is in receipt of any children’s social work services. This includes being looked after at home or in any form of care, on the child protection register, receiving through care and after care, or looking for prospective adopters. Taken from the local authority SWIFT, SWIS, or in-house social work database. Derived variables Note that variables which are created from combining answer categories as provided in the questionnaire are not noted below. Household type (all surveys) Derived from questions about who the child lived with (secondary school questionnaire Q21a / primary school questionnaire ChHome1) Derived from questions about relationships between household members (parent survey questionnaire Relation) Two parent households were defined as those in which the child reported living with both a mother and father One parent households were defined as those in which the child reported living with either a mother or a father, but not both, and not someone described as the mother or father’s partner Step-families were defined as those in which the child reported living with either the mother or father, and the mother or father’s partner Other household types were those in which the child reported living with neither their mother nor father. This could include living with grandparents, in foster care, in a care home, or with someone else. In some cases, children reported living with both parents and one of their parents’ partners. This was taken to be a step-family, as it was assumed the mother’s partner and the father were the same person, but not the biological father (and similarly for father’s partner). Similarly, those who reported living with parents and foster parents were assumed to be a foster family (hence ‘other’ household type). The questionnaire did not allow someone to say they lived with two mothers or two fathers. Such
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