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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Number of serious incident notifications by nature of notification, 2019 to 2025, England
Number of serious incident notifications by region and local authority, 2019 to 2025, England. CIN, IDACI and population data have been included to provide further contextual information to the data.
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National
Number of serious incident notifications for each reporting year, by: nature of notification; child looked after; gender; age; ethnicity; disability; placement type; child in need plan; child protection plan; child known to any agency; quarter.
Local authority, National, Regional
Number of serious incident notifications for each reporting year, by local authority and region.
National
Total number of serious incident notifications for each reporting year. Figures between 2015 and 2018 are based on Ofsted published data and figures for 2019 onwards are based on Department for Education data.
National
Number of serious incident notifications for care leaver deaths for each reporting year, by age.
Description of the data sets included in this release, including information on data sources, coverage, quality and any data conventions used.
This guidance describes the data included in the 2025 official statistics release on Serious incident notifications.
This data is released under the terms of the Open Government Licence (opens in new tab) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (opens in new tab).
The methodology page should be referenced alongside this data.
This annual release contains statistics on serious incidents involving children that local authorities have notified the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel (opens in new tab) about.
Notifiable serious incidents are those that involve death or serious harm to a child where abuse or neglect is known or suspected, and any death of a looked after child.
The underlying data files include national, regional and local authority level information for the years 2019 to 2025.
The following symbols are used in the underlying data files as follows:
c to protect confidentiality - secondary suppression may also be applied to figures to protect confidentiality
x data not available
Where any number is shown as zero, the original figure submitted was zero.
In the file ‘Sub-national notifications with contextual data’:
All other figures are unrounded.
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