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 26 October 2023

Last updated 26 October 2023

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 2023
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Anonymous
  • Education services
  • Health services
• Time period: 2014 to 2023

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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
2023	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Source of referral	640430	53020	128650	12600	92350	7240	90070	184530	26520	27560	11150	6730
2023	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				Source of referral	34790	2810	4980	1360	4920	380	5470	11260	1390	1260	840	110
2023	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				Source of referral	82720	5970	14360	1480	11130	900	12500	26910	3750	3950	1610	160
2023	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber				Source of referral	65790	5450	10710	2450	8270	780	9940	20170	3450	2770	1340	480
2023	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Source of referral	55590	6810	10870	640	7800	590	7160	15300	2490	1870	1060	1030

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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. If a child has more than one referral in a reporting year, then each referral is counted.
2. 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.
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, external local authority services and early help.
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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