Boys in care: GCSE attainment gap-2015

This statistic shows the differences in the share of boys in care and not in care who achieved 5 or more A*-C grade GCSEs (including English and Maths) in England from 2010 to 2015. In 2014, 8.9 percent of male looked after pupils achieved these GCSE grades, 5 times fewer than non-looked after male pupils at 47.7 percent.

Share of male looked after and non-looked after pupils who achieved 5 or more A-C GCSEs (including English and maths) in England from 2010 to 2015

Characteristic	Looked after	Non looked after
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Release date

March 2016

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United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

2010 to 2015

Supplementary notes

*Or equivalent.
"Looked after children" include foster placements, children placed for adoption, placements with parents, other placements in the community, secure units, children's homes and hostels and other residental settings including residential schools continuously for a period of at least 12 months.
**New 2014 methodology applied to 2013/14 data. Two major reforms have been implemented which affect the calculation of key stage 4 (KS4) performance measures data. Professor Alison Wolf’s Review of Vocational Education recommendations which restrict the qualifications counted, prevent any qualification from counting as larger than one GCSE and cap the number of non-GCSEs included in performance measures at two per pupil. There is also an early entry policy to only count a pupil’s first attempt at a qualification. Revised GCSE and equivalent results in England at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/revised-gcse-and-equivalent-results-in-england-2014-to-2015.
***Early entry policy extended to all subjects.

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