Serious incident notifications
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National level transparency data providing the number of percentage of serious incident notifications each half year since the 2018-19 financial year. The data is broken down by the following:
- age group;
- gender;
- ethnicity;
- disability;
- notification nature;
- placement type; and
- whether the child is known to other agencies or has a Child Protection Plan (CPP).
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Data set details
- Theme
- Children's social care
- Publication
- Serious incident notifications
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Number of serious incident notifications
- Percentage of serious incident notifications
- Filters
- Serious incident notifications by characteristic
- Time period
- 2018-19 Part 1 (Apr to Sep) to 2020-21 Part 1 (Apr to Sep)
Data set preview
time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | sin_breakdown | category | number | percentage |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2020-21 | Part 1 (April to September) | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | 285 | 100 |
2020-21 | Part 1 (April to September) | National | E92000001 | England | Gender | Male | 153 | 53.7 |
2020-21 | Part 1 (April to September) | National | E92000001 | England | Gender | Female | 130 | 45.6 |
2020-21 | Part 1 (April to September) | National | E92000001 | England | Gender | Transgender | 0 | 0 |
2020-21 | Part 1 (April to September) | National | E92000001 | England | Gender | Not known | 2 | 0.7 |
Variables in this data set
Variable name | Variable description |
---|---|
category | Serious incident notifications by characteristic |
number | Number of serious incident notifications |
percentage | Percentage of serious incident notifications |
Footnotes
- "Other" includes a small number of incidents that occurred in lodgings and youth offender institutions.
- "Hospital" includes a small number of incidents that occurred in mother and baby units.
- Care should be taken when interpreting these figures. Not all local authorities' management information systems allow for this information to be recorded. Also, local authorities must notify the Department of an incident within 5 working days, by which time whether the child has a child protection plan, or whether the child is known to other agencies, may not yet be known. The proportion is, therefore, likely to be an undercount.
- "Residential children's home" includes a small number of incidents that occurred in residential schools.
- Incidents relating to child sexual exploitation are included within "serious harm" and incidents involving child perpetrators are included in "other".
- Whether a child was “known to other agencies” is interpreted differently across local authorities and so these figures should be treated with caution. Some local authorities only include children known to Children's Social Care but in other cases can include agencies such as the police or babies under midwife care.
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