Approximately 54,700 children and young people under the age of 18 years live in Luton, 26 per cent of the 214,000 population.
There are high levels of child poverty, compared with regional and national averages - around one in five children are entitled to free school meals.
Children and young people from minority ethnic groups account for 61 per cent of all children living in the area, compared with 22 per cent in the country as a whole, while the proportion of children with English as an additional language is around 50 per cent, three-times national averages.
In 2016, children's services was rated "requires improvement" and a recent Ofsted focused inspection praised the "significant transformation programme" that has taken place since then, including the introduction of a whole-family model of safeguarding.
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