Children in need
Statistics on children in need in England, including child protection plans and referrals to and assessments completed by children’s social care services.
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- Department for Education
- Published
- Last updated
Get help by contacting us
If you have a specific enquiry about Children in need statistics and data:
Children’s Services Statistics Team
Email: cin.stats@education.gov.ukContact name: Andy Brook
Press office
If you have a media enquiry:
Telephone: 020 7783 8300
Public enquiries
If you have a general enquiry about the Department for Education (DfE) or education:
Phone: 0370 000 2288
Opening times
Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 5.30pm (closed on bank holidays)
Accredited official statistics
These accredited official statistics have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (opens in new tab) (OSR). They comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab). Accredited official statistics are called National Statistics in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (opens in new tab).
Accreditation signifies their compliance with the authority's Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab) which broadly means these statistics are:
- managed impartially and objectively in the public interest
- meet identified user needs
- produced according to sound methods
- well explained and readily accessible
Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR).
OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab) that all producers of official statistics should adhere to.
You are welcome to contact us directly with any comments about how we meet these standards. Alternatively, you can contact OSR by emailing regulation@statistics.gov.uk or via the OSR website (opens in new tab).
Pre-release access list
Besides Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff, the following post holders were given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.
- Secretary of State for Education
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families
- Permanent Secretary
- Special advisers
- Chief Data Officer and Chief Statistician
- Head of Data Insight and Statistics and Deputy Head of Profession for Statistics
- Head of Children and Schools Statistics
- Head of Children in Need Outcomes Unit
- Head of Adoption Policy and Delivery
- Team Leader, Children in Need Outcomes
- Team Leader, Children in Care, Permanence and Young Carers’ Outcomes
- Team Leader, Fostering Policy
- Team Leader, Children in Need and Looked after Children Analysis
- Policy Officer, Children in Need Outcomes Team
- Policy Officer, Children in Need Outcomes Team
- Policy Officer, Extra-familial harms and children missing from home or care
- Policy Adviser, Looked-after Children Outcomes Team
- Assistant Director, Adoption Support Services
- Senior Media Officer
- Media Officer