Data set from Serious incident notifications

Care leaver death notifications

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Published 22 May 2025

Last updated 22 May 2025

Number of serious incident notifications for care leaver deaths for each reporting year, by age.

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Data set details

• Theme: Children's social care
• Publication: Serious incident notifications
• Release: Reporting year 2025
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Number of serious incident notifications
• Filters:
  • Breakdown
• Time period: 2025

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Table showing first 3 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	breakdown_topic	breakdown	number_notifications
2025	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Total	Total	91
2025	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Age group	16 to 21	66
2025	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England	Age group	22 to 24	25

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 2 variables

Variable name	Variable description
breakdown	Breakdown
number_notifications	Number of serious incident notifications

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