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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: 4 January 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WARNING - The data used in this table may now be out-of-date as a new release has been published since its creation.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 Bexley and England between 2014 and 2022

			2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Police	England		156,400	166,640	171,380	177,470	186,920	189,910	184,760	195,270	191,840
	Outer London	Bexley	221	714	773	952	1,005	922	875	1,039	984
Schools	England		85,630	97,460	103,670	114,530	119,030	117,190	117,010	81,180	129,090
	Outer London	Bexley	255	545	673	631	618	466	496	436	916
Health services	England		91,740	93,910	89,080	93,330	96,780	95,070	96,300	95,670	96,170
	Outer London	Bexley	222	439	435	413	486	428	416	591	576
LA services	England		77,890	82,460	83,250	88,150	89,360	86,810	90,810	87,260	87,300
	Outer London	Bexley	168	436	583	511	512	496	436	535	551
Individual	England		68,890	61,410	57,050	53,120	52,870	51,950	52,290	50,940	53,160
	Outer London	Bexley	163	322	303	281	209	200	197	204	201
Other legal agency	England		25,440	20,960	20,840	22,230	22,890	23,780	25,180	23,910	26,020
	Outer London	Bexley	73	120	108	73	101	93	116	107	67
Education services	England		19,910	18,190	16,900	17,030	13,150	15,580	13,630	8,490	13,350
	Outer London	Bexley	70	31	27	c	c	34	45	50	86
Anonymous	England		18,590	15,870	13,770	14,510	15,890	15,580	13,770	13,430	11,600
	Outer London	Bexley	38	34	49	31	51	31	45	49	42
Housing	England		10,420	10,170	9,710	9,970	9,440	8,540	8,300	6,550	6,640
	Outer London	Bexley	c	74	19	99	180	35	28	38	52
Other	England		46,830	44,470	38,740	40,770	38,440	35,780	31,630	29,180	27,840
	Outer London	Bexley	56	133	69	136	79	92	90	148	132
Unknown	England		51,560	20,880	17,080	15,010	10,680	10,730	9,300	5,890	7,250
	Outer London	Bexley	c	8	10	c	c	6	51	12	13
Number of referrals	England		657,780	635,620	621,470	646,120	655,630	650,930	642,980	597,760	650,270
	Outer London	Bexley	3,914	2,856	3,049	3,134	3,270	2,803	2,795	3,209	3,620

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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