Data set from Serious incident notifications

Serious incident notifications - all

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Number and percentage of serious incident notifications for the full and each half year of financial year. The data is broken down by the following:

  • age group;
  • gender;
  • ethnicity;
  • disability;
  • notification nature;
  • placement type; and
  • whether the child is known to other agencies or has a Child Protection Plan (CPP).

Data set details

Theme
Children's social care
Publication
Serious incident notifications
Release type
Geographic levels
National
Indicators
  • Number of serious incident notifications
  • Percentage of serious incident notifications
Filters
  • Serious incident notifications by characteristic
  • Time breakdown
Time period
2018-19 to 2020-21

Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_periodtime_identifiertime_breakdowngeographic_levelcountry_codecountry_namesin_breakdowncategorynumberpercentage
202021Financial yearFull yearNationalE92000001EnglandTotalTotal536100
202021Financial yearFull yearNationalE92000001EnglandGenderMale31358.4
202021Financial yearFull yearNationalE92000001EnglandGenderFemale21640.3
202021Financial yearFull yearNationalE92000001EnglandGenderTransgender30.6
202021Financial yearFull yearNationalE92000001EnglandGenderNot known40.7

Variables in this data set

Table showing all 4 variables
Variable nameVariable description
categorySerious incident notifications by characteristic
numberNumber of serious incident notifications
percentagePercentage of serious incident notifications
time_breakdownTime breakdown

Footnotes

  1. "Residential children's home" includes a small number of incidents that occurred in residential schools.
  2. Figures on children known to any agency need to be treated with caution. Whether a child was known to any agency is interpreted differently across local authorities. Some local authorities only include children known to Children's Social Care but in other cases can include agencies such as the police, GP services, health visitors, early help, midwifery, etc. Figures can include children involved with agencies previously, and not just at the time of incident. Information is recorded at the time of reporting. Local authorities may not yet know whether the child was known to any agency.
  3. Incidents involving child perpetrators are included in "other".

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