Policy paper

Review of children in need

How the government is reviewing support for children in need in order to support them and improve their outcomes.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 16 March 2018
• Last updated: 17 June 2019
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  1. 17 June 2019

     Added 'Help, protection, education: concluding the children in need review' and updated the review of children in need to reflect the findings of the review.

  2. 10 December 2018

     Added 'Children in need: interim findings' and updated information links.

  3. 16 March 2018

     First published.

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Applies to England

Documents

Review of children in need

HTML

Help, protection, education: concluding the children in need review

Ref: DFE-00122-2019

PDF, 350 KB, 39 pages

Children in need review: interim findings

Ref: DFE-00353-2018

PDF, 440 KB, 32 pages

Details

Information on the government’s policy to support children in need and build the evidence base on how to improve their educational outcomes.

Supported by the data publications:

• an analysis of data covering characteristics of children in need and their outcomes from early years to adulthood
• children in need of help and protection: preliminary longitudinal analysis
• children in need of help and protection: final data and analysis