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Number of serious incident notifications for each financial year, broken down by the following:
- nature of notification;
- gender;
- age;
- ethnicity;
- disability;
- placement type;
- whether child has a child protection plan;
- whether child known to any agency;
- financial year quarter.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Children's social care
- Publication
- Serious incident notifications
- Release
- Financial year 2022-23
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Number of serious incident notifications
- Filters
- Nature of serious incident notification
- Characteristic type
- Financial year quarter
- Time period
- 2018-19 to 2022-23
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | quarter | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | characteristic | characteristic_type | nature_of_notification | number_notifications |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202223 | Financial year | Total | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | Total | 456 |
| 202223 | Financial year | Total | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | Child death | 201 |
| 202223 | Financial year | Total | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | Serious harm | 244 |
| 202223 | Financial year | Total | National | E92000001 | England | Total | Total | Other | 11 |
| 202223 | Financial year | Total | National | E92000001 | England | Gender | Male | Total | 251 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| characteristic_type | Characteristic type |
| nature_of_notification | Nature of serious incident notification |
| number_notifications | Number of serious incident notifications |
| quarter | Financial year quarter |
Footnotes
- The majority of notifications in the other category relate to incidents with child perpetrators who were themselves known or suspected to have been abused or neglected.
- For 2018-19, 'Residential children's home' includes one notification that occurred in a residential school.
- For 2018/19, there may be an undercount in the number of notifications recorded with a disability status of not known (with a corresponding overcount in the number of notifications recorded as involving children with no disability).
- The figures for 2019-20 and 2020-21 have been revised slightly from previous publications to reflect improved recording of data.
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