Serious incident notifications - total only
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Number of serious incident notifications for the financial year.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Children's social care
- Publication
- Serious incident notifications
- Release
- Financial year 2020-21
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Number of serious incident notifications
- Time period
- 2014-15 to 2020-21
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | time_breakdown | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | sin_breakdown | category | number |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202021 | Financial year | Full year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | 536 |
| 201920 | Financial year | Full year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | 449 |
| 201819 | Financial year | Full year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | 498 |
| 201718 | Financial year | Full year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | 384 |
| 201617 | Financial year | Full year | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | 433 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| number | Number of serious incident notifications |
Footnotes
- Figures from 2018-19 onwards have been produced by the Department for Education, with figures prior to then being produced by Ofsted. The Ofsted and the Department’s figures are broadly comparable when looking at the total number of serious incident notifications although the reporting of incidents and data quality has improved since reporting became becoming mandatory in 2018. However, comparisons between Ofsted’s and the Department’s figures of further breakdowns, e.g. by type of notification, should be interpreted with caution.
- Figures for 2014-15 to 2018-19 are taken from the Ofsted statistics release.
- The Children and Social Work Act 2017 placed a duty on local authorities to notify the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel of serious incidents. The duty came into effect when the Panel was established in June 2018. This replaced the previous arrangement whereby local authorities used to send serious incident notifications to Ofsted. The notifications to Ofsted had not been a legal requirement but guidance on them had been included in ‘Working together to safeguard children’ since March 2015.
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