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  • Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities, in England: 2022 to 2023

    A range of outcome measures at national and local authority level for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: looked-after children and 1 others
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Children’s homes workforce census: stage 1 findings 2023

    Findings from stage 1 of the children’s homes workforce census.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Northern Ireland Care Leavers 2022/23

    This annual publication presents information on those who left care during the previous financial year, as well as the circumstances of those who have left care at the time of their nineteenth birthday.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Good decisions: children with complex needs in children's homes

    A report on what ‘complex needs’ means to local authority and children’s home staff and how they support children with these needs.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Children looked after in England including adoption: 2022 to 2023

    Information on looked after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2022 to 2023.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: looked-after children
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Childrens Social Care Statistics for Northern Ireland 2022/23

    Children’s social care statistics for Northern Ireland presents figures, collected from each of the five health and social care trusts, for children in need at 31 March and year ending 31 March.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Children’s social care questionnaires 2023: what children and young people told Ofsted

    What children and young people have told us about their experiences of living in social care settings, including children’s homes, boarding schools, living with foster carers and staying at residential special schools.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Social care questionnaires: what children and young people told Ofsted
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Children Adopted from Care in Northern Ireland 2022/23

    This annual publication details statistical information on children adopted from care in Northern Ireland.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Children in Care in Northern Ireland 2021/22

    This publication presents information on children in Northern Ireland who have been looked after continuously for 12 months or longer at 30 September each year.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Evaluation of the care leavers social impact bond programme

    Evaluation of projects to deliver support to care leavers aged 16 to 25 not in education, employment or training (NEET), or who were at risk of becoming NEET.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Children accommodated in secure children's homes: 31 March 2023

    Statistics on approved placements by type, sex, age, ethnicity and length of stay.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: secure children’s homes
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Safeguarding children with disabilities in residential settings

    National safeguarding practice review into safeguarding children with disabilities and complex needs in residential settings.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
    • Updated:
  • Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities, in England: 2021 to 2022

    A range of outcome measures at national and local authority level for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: looked-after children and 1 others
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Northern Ireland Care Leavers 2021/22

    This annual publication presents information on those who left care during the previous financial year, as well as the circumstances of those who have left care at the time of their nineteenth birthday.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Children’s social care questionnaires 2022: what children and young people told Ofsted

    What children and young people have told us about their experiences of living in children’s homes or with foster carers and staying at residential special schools or boarding schools.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Social care questionnaires: what children and young people told Ofsted
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • How local authorities plan for sufficiency: children in care and care leavers

    A report on how local authorities plan for sufficiency of accommodation that meets the needs of children in care and care leavers

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Ofsted social care research
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Childrens Social Care Statistics for Northern Ireland 2021/22

    Children’s social care statistics for Northern Ireland presents figures, collected from each of the five health and social care trusts, for children in need at 31 March and year ending 31 March.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Seven features of practice and seven outcomes framework

    Best practice framework for children's social care practice systems following the children's social care innovation programme round 1 evaluation.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Children Adopted from Care in Northern Ireland 2021/22

    This annual publication details statistical information on children adopted from care in Northern Ireland.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Children in Care in Northern Ireland 2020/21

    This publication presents information on children in Northern Ireland who have been looked after continuously for 12 months or longer at 30 September each year.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated: