Research and statistics

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: 20 April 2023

Research reports analysing serious case reviews (SCRs), with findings for professionals working with children and families.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 15 December 2022

Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel paper about bruising to children.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
• Updated: 29 September 2022

Report on the implementation of new multi-agency arrangements to safeguard children by Sir Alan Wood CBE.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 14 May 2021

British public attitudes to education and children’s services: part of NatCen’s British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey.

• Document type: Research and analysis
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 17 December 2020

A national review into adolescent deaths or serious harm where criminal exploitation was a factor.

• Document type: Research and analysis
• Organisation: Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
• Updated: 4 March 2020

Research report analysing 368 serious case reviews (SCRs) with findings for professionals working with children and families.

• Document type: Research and analysis
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 4 March 2020

A summary of findings from our joint targeted area inspections (JTAIs) of how multi-agency partnerships respond to child exploitation.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Joint inspections of local area services
• Organisation: Care Quality Commission and 4 others
• Updated: 25 February 2020

An independent review into information passed to the Home Office in connection with allegations of child sexual abuse in Rotherham (1998-2005).

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Home Office
• Updated: 17 July 2018

This report examines the multi-agency response to older children who are living with neglect following 6 inspections of local authority areas.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Ofsted social care research and 1 others
• Organisation: Care Quality Commission and 3 others
• Updated: 6 July 2018

This report examined the multi-agency response to children living with domestic abuse.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Joint inspections of local area services
• Organisation: Ofsted
• Updated: 19 September 2017

This trial aimed to assess the feasibility of implementing multisystemic therapy for problematic sexual behaviour (MST-PSB).

• Document type: Research and analysis
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 6 July 2017

Research paper reporting the findings from a review of previous research.

• Document type: Research and analysis
• Organisation: Department for Education
• Updated: 24 October 2012