Data set from Children in need

C6 Referrals by Month

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Published 26 November 2020

Last updated 26 November 2020

Referrals to children's social care services, in the year ending 31 March by month of the year.

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Data set details

• Theme: Children's social care
• Publication: Children in need
• Release: Reporting year 2020
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • April
  • August
  • December
• 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	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	Category	Referrals	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	January	February	March
2020	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Month of referral	642980	50940	56000	55010	60950	45070	53260	58540	55790	48020	58960	52660	47780
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				Month of referral	33960	2610	2980	2800	2920	2310	2740	3120	2900	2540	3250	2990	2820
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				Month of referral	86500	6670	7610	7350	8500	6170	7530	8040	7450	6160	7650	7150	6210
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and the Humber				Month of referral	72570	6330	6670	6520	6470	5310	6120	6680	6030	5180	6310	5660	5290
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Month of referral	60160	4680	4850	4890	5700	4320	5260	5240	5240	4920	5840	4730	4510

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 13 variables

Variable name	Variable description
April	April
August	August
December	December
February	February
January	January

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Footnotes

1. A referral is defined as a request for services to be provided by children’s social care and is in respect of a child who is not currently in need.
2. If a child has more than one referral in a reporting year, then each referral is counted.

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