Data set from Children in need

C5 Children in Need Referrals by Source

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Published 26 November 2020

Last updated 26 November 2020

Referrals to children's social care services in the year ending 31 March by source of referral.

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Data set details

• Theme: Children's social care
• Publication: Children in need
• Release: Reporting year 2020
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Anonymous
  • Education services
  • Health services
• Time period: 2014 to 2020

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	category	Referrals	Individual	Schools	Education_Services	Health_Services	Housing	LA_Services	Police	Other_legal_agency	Other	Anonymous	Unknown
2020	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Source of referral	642980	52290	117010	13630	96300	8300	90810	184760	25180	31630	13770	9300
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				Source of referral	33960	2650	4400	1370	5570	370	5330	10390	1380	1390	960	140
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				Source of referral	86500	6570	14600	1280	13080	1420	12970	24480	3700	4520	2080	1790
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and the Humber				Source of referral	72570	6790	11040	2260	9580	720	10100	22670	3780	3270	2090	270
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Source of referral	60160	6360	11560	820	9260	750	9030	15560	2550	2180	1280	820

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 12 variables

Variable name	Variable description
Anonymous	Anonymous
Education_Services	Education services
Health_Services	Health services
Housing	Housing
Individual	Individual

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Footnotes

1. The source of referral is recorded for each new referral. Where there is more than one referral for the same child on the same day, the first referral should be recorded.
2. 'Health services' includes referral from GPs, health visitors, school nurses, other primary health services, A&E and other health services.
3. 'LA services' includes referrals from social care, other internal local authority services and external local authority services.
4. A referral is defined as a request for services to be provided by children’s social care and is in respect of a child who is not currently in need.
5. If a child has more than one referral in a reporting year, then each referral is counted.
6. 'Individual' includes referrals from family members, relatives, carers, acquaintances and self-referrals.

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