Data set from Children in need

B1 Children in Need and Episodes of Need

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Published 26 November 2020

Last updated 26 November 2020

Children in need episodes at any point during the year, episodes starting in year, episodes ending in year, and children in need at 31 March.

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Data set details

• Theme: Children's social care
• Publication: Children in need
• Release: Reporting year 2020
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Children ending an episode of need in the year
  • Children in need at 31 March
  • Children in need at 31 March who are awaiting assessment or do not require an assessment
• Time period: 2013 to 2020

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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	Anypoint_episodes	Anypoint_episodes_rate	Anypoint_child	Anypoint_child_rate	Started_episodes	Started_episodes_rate	Started_child	Started_child_rate	Ended_episodes	Ended_episodes_rate	Ended_child	Ended_child_rate	At31_episodes	At31_episodes_rate	Awaiting_assessment	Awaiting_assessment_rate
2020	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Children in Need	760330	632.4	706830	587.9	408310	339.6	381020	316.9	371070	308.6	349500	290.7	389260	323.7	17710	14.7
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				Children in Need	44490	836.2	41210	774.5	22550	423.9	20930	393.4	19860	373.3	18810	353.4	24630	462.9	390	7.4
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				Children in Need	112500	719.5	105120	672.4	58020	371.1	54230	346.9	54420	348.1	51570	329.8	58080	371.5	2200	14
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and the Humber				Children in Need	87130	744.7	79770	681.8	50090	428.2	46240	395.2	45720	390.8	42540	363.6	41410	354	1210	10.3
2020	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Children in Need	57280	571.3	53650	535.1	31400	313.2	29670	295.9	27370	273	26130	260.6	29920	298.4	1590	15.8

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 16 variables

Variable name	Variable description
Anypoint_child	Children with an episode of need at any point during the year
Anypoint_child_rate	Rate of children with an episode of need at any point during the year per 10000 children aged under 18 years
Anypoint_episodes	Episodes of need at any point during the year
Anypoint_episodes_rate	Rate of episodes of need at any point during the year per 10000 children aged under 18 years
At31_episodes	Children in need at 31 March

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Footnotes

1. A child in need is defined under the Children Act 1989 as a child who is unlikely to reach or maintain a satisfactory level of health or development, or their health or development will be significantly impaired without the provision of children's social care services, or the child is disabled.
2. Figures for children in need at 31 March include children awaiting assessment and those that do not require an assessment. These children are included to give a full account of the children in need population and are not intended to be used as a measure of local authority performance.
3. A child can have more than one episode of need throughout the year, but episodes should not overlap.
4. Rates per 10,000 of the population of children aged under 18 years are calculated using Office for National Statistics (ONS) mid-year population estimates for children aged 0 to 17 years in England.

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