Data collection for looked-after children

Submitting data. Validation rules, technical specification.

Guidance and regulation

Children looked after return 2023 to 2024: guide
- Guidance
- 3 April 2024
- Department for Education
Children looked after return: guide to submitting data
- Detailed guide
- 31 January 2024
- Department for Education
Children in need census: guide to submitting data
- Detailed guide
- 20 October 2023
- Department for Education
Children looked after return 2022 to 2023: guide
- Guidance
- 5 April 2023
- Department for Education
Looked-after children statistics in England: guide
- Guidance
- 18 May 2020
- Department for Education

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Research and statistics

Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities, in England: 2022 to 2023
- 18 April 2024
- Department for Education
- National statistics
Children looked after in England including adoption: 2022 to 2023
- 16 November 2023
- Department for Education
- National statistics
Childrens Social Care Statistics for Northern Ireland 2022/23
- 19 October 2023
- Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- National statistics
Children accommodated in secure children's homes: 31 March 2023
- 18 May 2023
- Department for Education
- National statistics
Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities, in England: 2021 to 2022
- 30 March 2023
- Department for Education
- National statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

Children in need and looked after children statistics: proposed changes
- 11 March 2021
- Department for Education
- Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

Outcomes of children in need, England 2018 to 2019
- 24 September 2020
- Department for Education
- Transparency

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Organisations

Department for Education

Ofsted