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Annual statistics on children in need in England, including referrals to and assessments completed by children’s social care services.
Children’s social care statistics for Northern Ireland presents figures, collected from each of the five health and social care trusts, for children in need at 31 March and year ending 31 March.
Children and young people share their experiences of living in social care settings, including children’s homes, boarding schools, residential special schools, and living with foster carers.
Evaluation findings from year 1 of the family finding and befriending and mentoring programme.
Report exploring the stability of permanence arrangements, factors that predict disruption and what happened after children returned to care.
Explores how systems of support may protect young people from, or expose them to, involvement in serious youth violence.
Report on looked-after children and young people with multiple needs who are at risk of, or subject to, a deprivation of liberty.
Report providing an overview of the methodology for data analysis strand and an outline of the core sample of children and young people.
Statistics from Ofsted on inspections of local authority children’s services in England.
Reports exploring how to reduce social workers’ workload.
This annual publication details statistical information on children adopted from care in Northern Ireland.
A study of the local authority response to homeless children and young people.
This publication presents information on the number of children on the child protection register at the end of each quarter.
Inspection data and information about the providers and places of children’s social care in England as well as inspections and inspection outcomes from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.
An evaluation report with the early findings on how the families first for children pathfinder programme has been implemented and delivered.
A range of outcome measures at national and local authority level for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities.
Report documenting adoptive parents’ and special guardians’ reflections on making decisions about their children’s care.
Research about supporting local safeguarding partners to learn from serious child safeguarding incidents.
Information on the stability of children looked after on 31 March 2024.
Findings from stages 2 and 3 of the children’s homes workforce census.
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