Mike Lewis, the charity's policy director, said the National Assemblyfor Wales was gathering too many of the wrong figures and this washindering the improvement of services for looked-after children.
The Assembly's data showed limited progress has been made by Welshsocial services since 2003/04 with the national average for mostmeasures revealing little change.
However, there was significant progress on getting qualified socialworkers to support children on the child protection register.
In 2003/04, 70 of the register's 2,134 children had an unqualifiedsocial worker but in 2004/05 this figure had plummeted to just 17 out ofthe 1,989 on the register.
Lewis said the increase in qualified social workers was good news butwarned that the statistics being collected by the Assembly neededimprovement.
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