This briefing paper series provides snapshots from the research titled ‘Kinship Care Re-visited: Using Census 2011 Microdata to Examine the Extent and Nature of Kinship Care in the UK.’ The background to this study, the aims and the method were described in Briefing Paper 1, published in the autumn of 2015.
This briefing paper, which is the third in a series, provides a brief overview of the characteristics of the children growing up with relatives in Scotland. This series of briefing papers is published as part of a study funded by the ESRC to analyse secure microdata from the 2011 Census to provide nationally representative, reliable statistics and maps on the distribution and characteristics of kinship care households in the four countries of the UK. Individual and household secure microdata hold anonymised records of a third of the respondents in the 2011 Census1. The secure data can only be accessed at secure settings by researchers with a special licence.
