Data set from Serious incident notifications

National, including characteristics

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Published 25 May 2023

Last updated 25 May 2023

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
• 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

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Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

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

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 4 variables

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

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Footnotes

1. 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.
2. For 2018-19, 'Residential children's home' includes one notification that occurred in a residential school.
3. 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).
4. 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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