National table showing the number and proportion of children with each assessment factor in 2025

Factors recorded at the end of assessment in the year to 31 March 2025

National table showing the number of children assessed as being affected by either sexual abuse or sexual exploitation from 2016 to 2025

Number of children assessed as being affected by sexual abuse and sexual exploitation, England, 2016-2025

Local authority level table showing the proportion of children assessed as having been affected by either sexual abuse or sexual exploitation in 2025

Percentage of children assessed as being affected by child sexual abuse or exploitation, by local authority, 2025

National table showing the number and proportion of children by characteristics and assessment factor in 2025.

Child characteristics by assessment factor, England, 2025

National table showing the number and proportion of children by assessment factor and their co-occurring factor identified at assessment in 2025.

Co-occurring factors for children by assessment factor, England, 2025

National table showing the number and proportion of children by assessment factor and the source of their referral in 2025.

Source of referral by assessment factor, England, 2025

National table showing the number of referrals, number of re-referrals and the re-referral rate by assessment factor in 2023.

Referrals and re-referrals by assessment factor, England, 2023

National table showing the number and proportion of children assessed in 2017-18 and their highest level of intervention in the following 6 years by assessment factor in England.

Children assessed in 2017-18 and their highest level of intervention in the following 6 years, by assessment factor

characteristic

characteristic_type

cla_group

child_count

child_percent

The number and proportion of children in need assessed with each factor at local authority, regional and national level.

Factors recorded at assessment, 2016 to 2025

The number and proportion of children in need by assessment factor with no co-occurring assessment factors.

Factors recorded at assessment, no co-occurring factors, 2016 to 2025

The number and proportion of children in need by assessment factor and their co-occurring assessment factors.

Co-occurring factors for children assessments, 2016 to 2025

The mean and median average number of assessment factors for children in need.

Median number of assessment factors, 2016 to 2025

The mean and median average number of assessment factors by assessment factor for children in need.

Median number of assessment factors by assessment factor, 2016 to 2025

The number and proportion of children in need by assessment factor and by the characteristics sex, age, ethnicity and disability.

Factors recorded at end of assessment, by child characteristics, 2016 to 2025

The number and proportion of children in need assessed as having been affected by CSA, CSE or mental health: concerns about parent as their assessment factor at local authority, regional and national level.

CSAE and parental mental health by LA and region

The number and proportion of children who are eligible for free school meals by assessment factor.

Factors recorded at end of assessment, by FSM eligibility, 2018 to 2024

The number and proportion of children with SEN provision by assessment factor.

Factors recorded at end of assessment, by SEN status, 2018 to 2024

The number and proportion of children with one or more suspensions or are permanently excluded by assessment factor.

Factors recorded at assessment, suspensions and exclusions, 2018 to 2023

The number and proportion of children who are persistently absent from school by assessment factor.

Factors recorded at the end of assessment, persistent absence, 2018 to 2024

The number and proportion of children starting child protection plans and those assessed as having been affected by CSA or CSE, including their initial category of abuse.

Children starting protection plans, by initial categories of abuse, 2016 to 2025

The median number of assessment factors for those children starting child protection plans for children assessed as having been affected by CSA or CSE by initial category of abuse.

Median number of assessment factors for children starting protection plans, 2016 to 2025

The number of child protection plans starting during the year by initial category of abuse.

Children starting child protection plans, 1994-2025

The number of children assessed as having been affected by CSA or CSE, and the number and proportion that started a child protection plan.

Children assessed with sexual abuse or exploitation starting CPPs, 2016 to 2025

The number and proportion of referrals by assessment factor and referral source.

Children recorded with each assessment factor, by referral source, 2016 to 2025

The number and proportion of children who were looked after at some point in the six years after their 2017/18 assessment, by characteristics including legal status, placement and category of need.

CSAE children assessed in 2017/18 who became looked after in the 6 years to 31 March 2024, by characteristics

The number and proportion of children assessed as having been affected by CSA or CSE who were looked after at some point in the six years after their 2017/18 assessment, by placement moves.

CSAE children assessed in 2017/18 who became looked after in the 6 years to 31 March 2024, by placement moves

The number and proportion of children assessed as having been affected by CSA or CSE who were looked after at some point in the six years after their 2017/18 assessment, by characteristic type.

CSAE children assessed in 2017/18 who became looked after in the 6 years to 31 March 2024, by reason episode ceased

The number and proportion of CSA and CSE referrals by referral type.

Referral type for children assessed with sexual abuse and exploitation, 2017 to 2023

The number of referrals, number of re-referrals and the re-referral rate by assessment factor.

Re-referral rate by assessment factor, 2023

The number and proportion of children assessed in 2023/24 who had a no further action referral in the previous 6 years, by assessment factor.

Children assessed in 2023/24 who had a no further action referral in the previous 6 years, by assessment factor

The number and proportion of children assessed in 2023/24 who had a Section 47 enquiry in the previous 6 years, by assessment factor.

Children assessed in 2023/24 who had a Section 47 enquiry in the previous 6 years, by assessment factor

The number of serious incident notifications for child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation by year.

Total CSAE notifications

The number of serious incident notifications for child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation by characteristics, social care group and placement type.

Characteristics of CSAE notifications

The rate of children assessed as having been affected by CSA or CSE, along with both the police recorded crime rate and the police recorded recent crime rate for contact child sexual abuse.

National csae crime rates

The proportion of contact child sexual abuse crimes which are not recent, by year.

Contact child sexual abuse: non-recent crime rates

Police force data on rate of children assessed as having been affected by CSA or CSE and the police recorded crime rate for contact child sexual abuse, by police force area.

Police crime data by police force area 2025

The number and proportion of children assessed in 2017-18 and their highest level of social care intervention in the next six years, by assessment factor.

Children assessed in 2017-18 and their highest level of intervention in the next 6 years, by assessment factor

The number and proportion of children assessed in 2017-18 who ever received a type of social care intervention in the next six years, by assessment factor.

Children assessed in 2017-18 and their interventions in the next 6 years, by assessment factor

The number and proportion of children assessed in 2023-24 and their highest level of social care intervention, by assessment factor.

Children assessed in 2023-24 and their highest level of intervention following assessment, by assessment factor

The number and proportion of children assessed in 2023-24 who ever received a type of social care intervention, by assessment factor.

Children assessed in 2023-24 and their interventions following assessment, by assessment factor

The number and proportion of children assessed in 2017-18 who had a Section 47 enquiry, ICPC or CPP in the next six years, by assessment factor.

Children assessed in 2017-18 who had a Section 47 enquiry, ICPC or CPP in the next 6 years, by assessment factor

The number and proportion of children assessed in 2017-18 who had a Section 47 enquiry, ICPC or CPP within the year, by assessment factor.

Children assessed in 2017-18 who had a Section 47 enquiry, ICPC or CPP within the year, by assessment factor

The number and proportion of children assessed in 2023-24 who had a Section 47 enquiry, ICPC or CPP within the year, by assessment factor.

Children assessed in 2023-24 who had a Section 47 enquiry, ICPC or CPP within the year, by assessment factor

Including children in need and child protection, children looked after and social work workforce statistics

Children's social care

Including Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

COVID-19

Including not in education, employment or training (NEET) statistics

Destination of pupils and students

Including early years foundation stage profile and early years surveys statistics

Early years

Including local authority (LA) and student loan statistics

Finance and funding

Including advanced learner loan, benefit claimant and apprenticeship and traineeship statistics

Further education

Including university graduate employment, graduate labour market and participation statistics

Higher education

Labour market and skills

Including absence, application and offers, capacity, exclusion and special educational needs (SEN) statistics

Pupils and schools

School and college outcomes and performance

Including initial teacher training (ITT) statistics

Teachers and school workforce

Including summarised expenditure, post-compulsory education, qualification and school statistics

Create your own tables on children in need: a focus on sexual abuse and exploitation

Step 1 Choose a publication

Step 2 Select a data set

Step 3 Choose Countries

Step 4 Choose time period

Step 5 Choose your filters

Step 6 Explore data

Related information

Contact us

Children’s Social Care Analysis and Research

Is this page useful?

Help us improve Explore education statistics