Data set from Children in need

C5 Referrals to children's social care services by source of referral and local authority

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Published 27 October 2022

Last updated 27 October 2022

Referrals to children's social care services by source of referral.

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Data set details

• Theme: Children's social care
• Publication: Children in need
• Release: Reporting year 2022
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Anonymous
  • Education services
  • Health services
• Time period: 2014 to 2022

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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	Individual	Schools	Education_Services	Health_Services	Housing	LA_Services	Police	Other_legal_agency	Other	Anonymous	Unknown
2022	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Source of referral	650270	53160	129090	13350	96170	6640	87300	191840	26020	27840	11600	7250
2022	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				Source of referral	34390	2610	5190	1390	5130	310	5260	11000	1330	1220	810	150
2022	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				Source of referral	86130	6220	15760	1350	12040	980	12010	27660	3590	4660	1620	240
2022	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber				Source of referral	68380	6040	10810	2450	8670	640	8930	22640	3610	2800	1570	230
2022	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Source of referral	58400	6800	11680	430	8110	620	7960	15970	2440	1810	1130	1460

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 12 variables

Variable name	Variable description
Anonymous	Anonymous
Education_Services	Education services
Health_Services	Health services
Housing	Housing
Individual	Individual

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Footnotes

1. The source of referral is recorded for each new referral. Where there is more than one referral for the same child on the same day, the first referral should be recorded.
2. If a child has more than one referral in a reporting year, then each referral is counted.
3. 'Health services' includes referral from GPs, health visitors, school nurses, other primary health services, A&E and other health services.
4. 'LA services' includes referrals from social care, other internal local authority services and external local authority services.
5. 'Individual' includes referrals from family members, relatives, carers, acquaintances and self-referrals.
6. Data for the years ending 31 March 2021 and 2022 is not available for Hackney local authority, therefore 2020 data for Hackney has been included in 2021 and 2022 national totals, and regional totals for inner London and London. Refer to the methodology section for more information.

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