Data set from Children in need

A1 Children in Need, Referrals and Assessments

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Published 26 November 2020

Last updated 26 November 2020

Children in need, episodes of need, referrals and assessments completed by children's social care services.

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Data set details

• Theme: Children's social care
• Publication: Children in need
• Release: Reporting year 2020
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Number
  • Percentage
  • Rate per 10,000 children aged under 18 years
• Filters:
  • Category type
• Time period: 2013 to 2020

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	category	category_type	number	rate	percent
2020	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Children in Need	Episodes of need at any point in the year	760330	632.4	z
2020	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Children in Need	Children in Need at any point during the year	706830	587.9	z
2020	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Children in Need	Episodes of need starting in the year	408310	339.6	z
2020	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Children in Need	Children starting an episode of need in the year	381020	316.9	z
2020	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Children in Need	Episodes of need ending in the year	371070	308.6	z

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 4 variables

Variable name	Variable description
category_type	Category type
number	Number
percent	Percentage
rate	Rate per 10,000 children aged under 18 years

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Footnotes

1. A child in need is defined under the Children Act 1989 as a child who is unlikely to reach or maintain a satisfactory level of health or development, or their health or development will be significantly impaired without the provision of children's social care services, or the child is disabled.
2. Figures for children in need at 31 March include children awaiting assessment and those that do not require an assessment. These children are included to give a full account of the children in need population and are not intended to be used as a measure of local authority performance.
3. Rates per 10,000 of the population of children aged under 18 years are calculated using Office for National Statistics (ONS) mid-year population estimates for children aged 0 to 17 years in England.

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