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There are invisible cities in England. You can’t see them very easily, but thousands (some say millions) of people live in them, not usually by choice (they don’t tend to be holiday destinations). Here I want to give you a quick tour of the Invisible City of Children. How many children live in the invisible city? No-one knows quite how many children live in the city, but until recently it was probably not far off a quarter of a million children. In recent times children in the city have been vanishing, with the number of children in the biggest suburb of the city, the Emeldee district, dropping by about a quarter over the last 4 years (to around 130,000 in 2014). No-one is quite sure what’s happened to them. Although the suburbs are much smaller, the number of children in the Eseldee and Piemeldee districts is continuing to slowly increase (around 31,000 and 10,600 children respectively). Most children in the city are boys (63%), and although some children are earmarked for life in the...

This is just a quick blog containing some data I came across today while rummaging amongst the information stored by the Health and Social Information Centre's excellent NASCIS system (http://www.hscic.gov.uk/nascis ). I hadn't noticed before that the information relating to expenditure by social services (PSS-EX1 - notice the strategic use of the hyphen to avoid embarrassment when searching for it on Google) also includes information on income from 'client contributions' (see here for more guidance on what this means http://www.hscic.gov.uk/media/13520/PSS-EX1-Guidance-2013-14/pdf/PSS-EX1_Guidance_2013-14_v1.0.pdf ). The graph and table below summarise the information on client contributions concerning social services for adults with learning disabilities aged 18-64 years, in England, from 2005/06 to 2013/14. Overall, in 2013/14, client contributions for social services for working age adults with learning disabilities totalled £262.8 million. Most of this came in cont...