A1 Children in Need, Referrals and Assessments
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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
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Number
- Percentage
- Rate per 10,000 children aged under 18 years
- Filters
- Category type
- Time period
- 2013 to 2020
Data set preview
time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | category | category_type | number | rate | percent |
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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 |
Variables in this data set
Variable name | Variable description |
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category_type | Category type |
number | Number |
percent | Percentage |
rate | Rate per 10,000 children aged under 18 years |
Footnotes
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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