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Local authority interactive tool (LAIT)

An interactive spreadsheet for comparing data about children and young people across all local authorities in England.

Applies to England

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Local authority interactive tool

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Local authority interactive tool: user guide

Local authority interactive tool: version log

Details

The local authority interactive tool (LAIT) presents information in interactive tables and charts with the local authority’s rank and position in England.

It includes data on:

  • children looked after by local authorities
  • child protection
  • special educational needs and disability (SEND)
  • pupil attainment
  • children’s health
  • post-16 circumstances
  • judgements from Ofsted

The ‘Children’s services statistical neighbour benchmarking tool’ allows you to select a local authority and display its ‘closest statistical neighbours’ (local authorities with similar characteristics).

More information is available in appendix A of the ‘Local authority interactive tool: user guide’.

Original data on the LAIT is sourced from:

Ofsted’s 5-year inspection data is also available for children’s social care, early years, further education and skills, non-association independent schools, initial teacher education providers and state-funded schools.

The ‘Local authority interactive tool’ is not accessible because of missing alternative text, tables with complex structures and hard to read text contrast. This means it doesn’t meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines success criteria 1.1.1 non-text content, 1.3.2 meaningful sequence and 1.4.3 contrast.

Our teams are working to fix this or provide an alternative by 2 April 2024.

Published 28 January 2014
Last updated 7 March 2024 + show all updates
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