Part 1 (April to September) 2020-21

Serious incident notifications

Annual statistics for England on serious incidents that involve death or serious harm to a child due to abuse or neglect, and any death of a looked-after child.

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    National

    National level transparency data providing the number of percentage of serious incident notifications each half year since the 2018-19 financial year. The data is broken down by the following: - age group; - gender; - ethnicity; - disability; - notification nature; - placement type; and - whether the child is known to other agencies or has a Child Protection Plan (CPP).

    Number of rows
    181
    Indicators
    • Number of serious incident notifications
    • Percentage of serious incident notifications
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    • Serious incident notifications by characteristic
    Time period
    2018-19 Part 1 (Apr to Sep) to 2020-21 Part 1 (Apr to Sep)
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Data guidance

Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.

Description

This guidance describes the data included in the Serious incident notifications transparency data release. The release methodology, available on the release web page should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data source, coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.

Coverage

Notifiable incidents are those that involve death or serious harm to a child where abuse or neglect is known or suspected, and the deaths of looked after children, whether or not abuse or neglect is known or suspected. Local authorities in England must notify the Secretary of State of such incidents via the Child Safeguarding Incident Notification System.

File formats and conventions

Rounding 

This dataset has not had rounding applied. 

Conventions 

The following convention is used throughout the underlying data. 

‘c’ confidential (characteristic breakdowns of 2 or fewer).

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If you have a specific enquiry about Serious incident notifications statistics and data:

Children’s Services Statistics Team

Email: sin.stats@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Andy Brook

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