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.
- Release type
- Produced by
- Department for Education
- Published
- Last updated
Get help by contacting us
If you have a specific enquiry about Serious incident notifications statistics and data:
Children’s Services Statistics Team
Email: sin.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)
Experimental statistics
These statistics are experimental statistics undergoing evaluation. They have been developed under the guidance of the Head of Profession for Statistics and published to involve users and stakeholders at an early stage in assessing their suitability and quality.
Experimental official statistics have been produced as far as possible in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics.
This can be broadly interpreted to mean that 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
Find out more about the standards we follow to produce these statistics through our Standards for official statistics published by DfE guidance (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
- Special Advisers (2)
- Permanent Secretary
- Director General, Children’s Services, Communications and Strategy Group
- Directors, Children’s Social Care (3)
- Chief Social Worker for Children and Families
- Deputy Director, Strategy & Practice, Children Social Care
- Deputy Director, Head of Child Protection, Safeguarding and Family Law
- Deputy Director, Workforce, Children's Social Care
- Deputy Director, Looked-after children placement
- Deputy Director, Serious Incidents and Safeguarding Partnerships
- Deputy Director, Children Social Care Strategy, Funding and Digital
- Head of Planning, Business and Operations Unit, Children Social Care
- Director, Chief Data Officer and Chief Statistician
- Deputy Head of News
- Media officers (2)
- Ofsted, Principal Officer, Safeguarding
- Ofsted, Team Leader, Social Care Inspection Insight team
- Head of Communications, Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel Secretariat