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

• Created: 15 August 2023

WARNING - The data used in this table may now be out-of-date as a new release has been published since its creation.

'C5 Referrals to children's social care services by source of referral and local authority' in England between 2014 and 2022

	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Police	156,400	166,640	171,380	177,470	186,920	189,910	184,760	195,270	191,840
Schools	85,630	97,460	103,670	114,530	119,030	117,190	117,010	81,180	129,090
Health services	91,740	93,910	89,080	93,330	96,780	95,070	96,300	95,670	96,170
LA services	77,890	82,460	83,250	88,150	89,360	86,810	90,810	87,260	87,300
Individual	68,890	61,410	57,050	53,120	52,870	51,950	52,290	50,940	53,160
Other legal agency	25,440	20,960	20,840	22,230	22,890	23,780	25,180	23,910	26,020
Education services	19,910	18,190	16,900	17,030	13,150	15,580	13,630	8,490	13,350
Anonymous	18,590	15,870	13,770	14,510	15,890	15,580	13,770	13,430	11,600
Housing	10,420	10,170	9,710	9,970	9,440	8,540	8,300	6,550	6,640
Other	46,830	44,470	38,740	40,770	38,440	35,780	31,630	29,180	27,840
Unknown	51,560	20,880	17,080	15,010	10,680	10,730	9,300	5,890	7,250

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.

Source: Characteristics of children in need, C5 Referrals to children's social care services by source of referral and local authority

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