The Department for Education and Skills wants to see the proportion of looked-after children not sitting a GCSE or equivalent exam reduced to 10 per cent by 2006.
But figures from the Office for National Statistics show that last year a massive 43 per cent did not sit a single examination - up from 2002 when 42 per cent did not sit.
Another target states that by 2006, in all authorities at least 15 per cent of young people in care should have five or more GCSEs at grade C or above.
But last year only 15 per cent of councils had reached this level - an improvement of only two percentage points from the year before.
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