CIN at 31 March - free school meals by disability and disability type
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Children in need at 31 March with and without a disability recorded each year, eligible for FSM by disability type.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Children's social care
- Publication
- Children in need: A focus on disability
- Release
- Reporting year 2025
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 112
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Child count
- Child percentage
- Filters
- Disability
- Disability type
- Time period
- 2019 to 2025
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| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | disability | disability_type | child_count | child_percent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | All CIN at 31 March | Total | 108870 | 46 |
| 2020 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | All CIN at 31 March | Total | 113420 | 49.6 |
| 2021 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | All CIN at 31 March | Total | 123880 | 54.8 |
| 2022 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | All CIN at 31 March | Total | 135730 | 57 |
| 2023 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | All CIN at 31 March | Total | 139200 | 59 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| child_count | Child count |
| child_percent | Child percentage |
| disability | Disability - Filter by disability |
| disability_type | Disability type - Filter by disability type |
Footnotes
- Free school meal (FSM) eligibility is taken from both the school census and the alternative provision census. More detailed information on the FSM data published within this release is available in the Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England methodology.
- Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Percentages rounded to 1 decimal place. Figures in some tables may be suppressed, denoted by a 'c', percentages <0.05% are denoted by a 'k'.
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