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Statistics: children in need and child protection

Statistics on children referred to and assessed by children’s social services.

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From:
Department for Education
Published:
31 October 2012
Last updated:
2 April 2026
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  1. Added 'Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities, in England: 2024 to 2025'.

  2. Added 'Children in need: a focus on re-referrals' ad hoc statistics to 'Children in need'.

  3. Added 'Children in need: 2024 to 2025'.

  4. Added 'Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities, in England: 2023 to 2024'.

  5. Added ‘Children in need: 2023 to 2024’.

  6. Added 'Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England: 2022 to 2023' to 'Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after'.

  7. Added 'Children in need: 2022 to 2023' statistics.

  8. Added 'Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities, in England: 2021 to 2022'.

  9. Added 'Characteristics of children in need: 2021 to 2022'.

  10. Added 'Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities, in England: 2020 to 2021'.

  11. Added 'Characteristics of children in need: 2020 to 2021' under the heading 'Characteristics of children in need'.

  12. Added 'Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England: 2019 to 2020'.

  13. Added a link to Explore education statistics and added the latest National Statistics Characteristics of children in need: 2019 to 2020.

  14. Removed details on how to submit feedback on proposed changes to children in need and looked after statistics - the submission deadline has now passed.

  15. Added details about the proposed changes to outcomes statistics and how users can give their feedback.

  16. Added 'Characteristics of children in need in England: 2018 to 2019'.

  17. Added Characteristics of children in need: 2017 to 2018.

  18. Added 'Characteristics of children in need: 2016 to 2017'.

  19. Added 'Characteristics of children in need: 2015 to 2016'.

  20. Added 'Characteristics of children in need: 2014 to 2015'.

  21. Added SFR for characteristics of children in need in England 2012 to 2013.

  22. First published.

Statistics published before May 2010 are available in the UK Government Web Archive. Note: the search function is not available on archived content, so use the filters instead.

Children in need

Characteristics of children in need

Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after

Referrals, assessments and children who were the subject of a child protection plan

Monitoring and evaluation of family intervention projects

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