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
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)
Official statistics
These are Official Statistics and have been produced in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (opens in new tab).
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).
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
- Minister for Children, Families and Wellbeing
- Minister for the School System and Student Finance
- Special Advisor, Schools, Children and Families
- Special Advisor, Skills, Higher Education and Further Education
- Special Advisor, Social Media and Digital Communications
- Special Advisor, Parliamentary and Communications
- Permanent Secretary
- Director General, Families
- Director General, Strategy
- Director, Children's Social Care Strategy and Care System (2)
- Director, Children's Social Care - Safeguarding and Workforce
- Chief Social Worker for Children and Families
- Deputy Director, Child Protection Safeguarding
- Deputy Director, Children's Social Care Workforce
- Deputy Director, Looked-after Children Placements
- Deputy Director, Children Residential Placements (2)
- Deputy Director, Children's Social Care Improvement and Intervention for Regions Group (2)
- Deputy Director, Serious Incidents, National Panel and Multi Agency (2)
- Grade 6, Safeguarding Policy (2)
- Grade 6, Child Protection Policy
- Team Leader, Serious Incidents, System Learning and Panel Sponsorship Unit
- Chief Analyst and Director, SARDIS & Strategic Data Transformation
- Deputy Head of Profession for Statistics and Section Head, Statistics Services Unit
- Lead Analyst, Children’s Social Care Analysis and Research
- Head of News, News and Social Media
- Chief Media Officer
- Senior Media Officer
- Media Officer
- Specialist Adviser, Cross-remit Safeguarding, Ofsted
- Principal Officer, Safeguarding Social Care Regulation and Inspection, Ofsted
- Data and Insight, Ofsted
- Panel Chair, National Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
- Panel Member, National Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
- Head of Communications, National Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel Secretariat