Merton is the best performing council, with 35 per cent of looked-after children hitting the target, while Dorset is second with 27 per cent. Westminster comes in third at 21 per cent, according to the local authority breakdown of outcome indicators in the 12 months to 30 September 2004. But in 104 councils the number of children in care gaining five GCSEs or equivalent at grades A* to C was too small to be recorded, and...