Implications: Some forms may have been filled out incorrectly, be incomplete or have missing information about a person or household. The Census Quality Survey is a survey carried out after the Census to estimate the level of respondent error. Editing and imputation strategies are used to correct inconsistencies and missing information. Where data are rounded, they may not sum to the totals shown, or, in the case of percentages, to 100%, because they have been rounded independently. Use of symbols Police officers: employees of a police force, who have taken an oath (under the Police Act 1996) to uphold the law. Details of which officers are included in the statistics appear in Section 4 of this user guide.

Biehal, N., Clayden, J., Stein, M. and Wade, W. (1995), Moving On: Young People and Leaving Care Schemes. HMSO: London.Although most UK Service leavers experience successful transitions to civilian life, some face challenges including ill health, unemployment, debt and homelessness. In 2016, the Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT) ran a consultation on Life Transitions that identified individual resilience as an important driver of successful transition. Building on this engagement, FiMT commissioned RAND Europe to research the effect of Service leavers’ resilience on transition pathways and outcomes. Goals Some care leavers said they did not find out about their rights until they were already in serious difficulties. In some cases, care leavers were already in debt or homeless before they were told about the help they could access. Only around half remembered being told about the support and services available in the local care leaver offer. A similar proportion reported being told how to complain and even fewer were told how to get advocacy support. Care leavers (or their c Prepare detailed publication schedule (at least 3 months before publication), containing all specific tasks, milestones and staff allocated to them. the data source for assaults on police officers is the police recorded crime series, published by the ONS, within the latest Crime in England and Wales release

This measure is not expected to impact on family formation, stability or breakdown. However, it will have a positive impact on those who are leaving care, recognising the extra barriers they may face in the transition to the world of work. Levy, A and Kahan, B (1991), The Pindown Experience and the Protection of Children. Staffordshire County Council. Designated officers: skilled police staff (who are not police officers) employed to exercise specific powers that would otherwise be available to police officers. Designation can be to one or more of 4 roles: police community support officer ( PCSO), investigation officer, detention officer and escort officer. More details of the coverage and underlying legislation appear in section 7 of this user guide. Headcount: an alternative measure to full-time equivalent, it counts all employees as 1.0, whether full- or part-time. For many children in care, approaching adulthood and leaving the care system is a time of extra challenges, anxiety and fear. This research looks at the planning and preparation that happens before leaving care.requests for changes or additions to the ADR considered by the ADR committee (which weighs up the benefits against administrative burden) Implications: These data should not be used to assess long term absence in forces. The numbers for individual functions may be slightly inconsistent between forces and years, depending on how forces have categorised staff on long term absence. However, the impact of this is likely to be very small, given the relatively small proportion of employees on long-term absence as at 31 March each year. information on demographics, such as gender and ethnicity, is inputted into HR systems when an individual is recruited. These characteristics can usually be amended by HR or the individual at any time. Most forces have self-service systems to allow employees to amend their details