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A statistical profile containing information on various aspects of the health of children in Northern Ireland (experimental statistics).
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.
Tables providing a range of demographic information relating to the population of Northern Ireland.
Research on how behavioural influences on fostering and adoption recruitment can be used to encourage the recruitment of quality foster carers and adopters.
Findings from qualitative interviews with active and former childminders in England.
Study on the effectiveness of local authority support on sector improvement, partners in practice and interventions in children’s social care services.
A summary of responses from senior leaders in local authorities to questions asked in waves 1 to 6 of the children’s services omnibus survey.
Findings from interviews with local authorities, regional adoption agencies and providers who offered support using the adoption support fund.
Findings from qualitative interviews with adoptive parents and special guardian carers.
Research reports analysing serious case reviews (SCRs), with findings for professionals working with children and families.
Findings from the second follow up survey of families whose children received support from the adoption support fund.
Summarises findings from a 3-year mixed-method evaluation of the adoption support fund in England.
This quarterly publication provides an overview on the performance of the Child Maintenance Service in Northern Ireland. This publication contains information up to the quarter ending September 2022.
Quarterly experimental statistics on the Child Maintenance Service to September 2022.
Social care data to accompany the Ofsted Annual Report 2021/22
Annual update covering educational outcomes and attendance.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation's (JCVI) final recommendations on changes to the childhood immunisation schedule.
Quarterly statistics on conceptions to women aged under 18 years resident in England and Wales; numbers and rates are by regions and other local authority areas.
Lessons learnt from a Department for Education (DfE) funded pilot which examined the existing oversight of out-of-school settings.
Early years foundation stage profile results for the 2021 to 2022 academic year at national and local authority level.
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