CIN at 31 March - absence by disability and disability type
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Children in need at 31 March with and without a disability recorded each year, broken down by absence and disability type.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Children's social care
- Publication
- Children in need: A focus on disability
- Release
- Reporting year 2025
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 112
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Persistently absent child count
- Persistently absent child percentage
- Severely absent child count
- Filters
- Disability
- Disability type
- Time period
- 2019 to 2025
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| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | disability | disability_type | child_count_persistently_absent | child_percent_persistently_absent | child_count_severely_absent | child_percent_severely_absent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | All CIN at 31 March | Total | 60340 | 30.4 | 9900 | 5 |
| 2021 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | All CIN at 31 March | Total | 76770 | 41 | 10440 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | All CIN at 31 March | Total | 86980 | 43.9 | 15930 | 8 |
| 2023 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | All CIN at 31 March | Total | 88090 | 44.4 | 19720 | 10 |
| 2024 | Reporting year | National | E92000001 | England | All CIN at 31 March | Total | 85020 | 44 | 21040 | 10.9 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| child_count_persistently_absent | Persistently absent child count |
| child_count_severely_absent | Severely absent child count |
| child_percent_persistently_absent | Persistently absent child percentage |
| child_percent_severely_absent | Severely absent child percentage |
| disability | Disability - Filter by disability |
Footnotes
- Due to the disruption caused by the impact of Covid-19 during the 2020/21 and 2021/22 academic years, caution should be taken when comparing data to previous years. No absence data relating to the full 2019/20 academic year is available.
- Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10. Percentages rounded to 1 decimal place. Figures in some tables may be suppressed, denoted by a 'c', percentages <0.05% are denoted by a 'k'.
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