Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England
Children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England, national and local authority level outcomes including key stage 4 and absence
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- Department for Education
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If you have a specific enquiry about Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England statistics and data:
Children Looked After Data Team
Email: CLA.STATS@education.gov.ukContact name: Bree Waine
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If you have a media enquiry:
Telephone: 020 7783 8300
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If you have a general enquiry about the Department for Education (DfE) or education:
Phone: 0370 000 2288
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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
- Minister of State for School Standards
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the School System
- Special Advisers
- Permanent Secretary
- Chief Operating Officer for DfE and Director General of Operations Group
- Chief Social Worker for Children and Families
- Director General for Children’s Social Care, Social Mobility, Private Office, Comms/MPCD and Disadvantage
- 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
- Children’s Social Care – Practice and Workforce, Directors (Job Share)
- Looked after children outcomes, Children in Care and Permanence, Grade 7
- Looked after children outcomes, Children in Care and Permanence, SEO
- Looked after children outcomes, Children in Care and Permanence, HEO
- Children’s Social Care Analysis and Research, Grade 7
- Media Officer, Safety and Well-being desk
- Media Officer, Schools desk
- Digital Content and Social Media Officer, Press Office