Data set from Children in need

C5 Referrals to children's social care services by source of referral, England 2014 to 2021

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Published 28 October 2021

Last updated 28 October 2021

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 2021
• Geographic levels: Local authority, National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Anonymous
  • Education services
  • Health services
• Time period: 2014 to 2021

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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
2021	Reporting year	National	E92000001	England						Source of referral	597760	50940	81180	8490	95670	6550	87260	195270	23910	29180	13430	5890
2021	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East				Source of referral	30160	2420	3020	760	5110	280	4830	10170	1240	1330	920	100
2021	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000002	North West				Source of referral	81410	6220	9670	920	12890	1170	12540	27580	3750	4430	1960	290
2021	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000003	Yorkshire and The Humber				Source of referral	64040	6030	6660	1320	8660	620	9410	22960	3160	2800	2040	380
2021	Reporting year	Regional	E92000001	England	E12000004	East Midlands				Source of referral	55740	6480	8100	550	8580	630	8000	17090	2240	1960	1380	730

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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. 'LA services' includes referrals from social care, other internal local authority services and external local authority services.
3. 'Individual' includes referrals from family members, relatives, carers, acquaintances and self-referrals.
4. Data for the year ending 31 March 2021 is not available for Hackney local authority, therefore 2020 data for Hackney has been included in the 2021 national totals and regional totals for inner London and London. Refer to the methodology section for more information.
5. 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.
6. 'Health services' includes referral from GPs, health visitors, school nurses, other primary health services, A&E and other health services.

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