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  • North East Lincolnshire children's services: commissioner's report

    An independent report on options for delivering children's services from the Children’s Commissioner in North East Lincolnshire.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Serious incident notifications: 2021 to 2022

    Experimental statistics covering notifications from local authorities about serious incidents involving children, including incidents of serious harm and death.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: serious incident notifications
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Children accommodated in secure children's homes: 31 March 2022

    Statistics on approved placements by type, gender, age, ethnicity and length of stay.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: secure children’s homes
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • National review into the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson

    National child safeguarding practice review into the murders of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel
    • Updated:
  • Independent review of children's social care: final report

    Independent report by Josh MacAlister looking at the needs, experiences and outcomes of the children supported by social care.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Ethnicity and children’s social care

    An analysis examining the differences in the experiences and outcomes of children in social care by ethnic group.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Post-16 educational and employment outcomes of children in need

    Explores the post-secondary school education and labour market outcomes of children in need, including those looked-after and on child protection plans.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Drivers of activity in children’s social care

    Analysis of drivers of activity for children’s social care.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Quarterly Child Protection Statistics for Northern Ireland (March 2022)

    This publication presents information on the number of children on the child protection register at the end of each quarter.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Why do children go into children’s homes?

    A report on why children go into children’s homes and how well matched they are.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Ofsted social care research and 1 others
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Supporting families after care proceedings

    Research report on a qualitative study into parental perspectives of supervision orders and care orders at home.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities, in England: 2020 to 2021

    A range of outcome measures at national and local authority level for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities in England.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: looked-after children and 1 others
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Children’s social care data in England 2021

    Inspection data and information about the providers and places of children’s social care in England as well as inspections and inspection outcomes.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Children's social care statistics
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Children's social work workforce 2021

    Information about children's social workers employed in local authorities and agency social workers.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: children's social work workforce
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Northern Ireland Care Leavers 2020/21

    This annual publication presents information on those who left care during the previous financial year, as well as the circumstances of those who have left care at the time of their nineteenth birthday.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Quarterly Child Protection Statistics for Northern Ireland (December 2021)

    This publication presents information on the number of children on the child protection register at the end of each quarter.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Early help: concepts, policy directions and multi-agency perspectives

    This scoping study looks at early help and local multi-agency responsiveness to meeting the needs of children, young people and their families.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Bradford children's services: commissioner's report

    An independent report and recommendations from the Commissioner for Children's Services in Bradford.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • ‘Ready or not’: care leavers’ views of preparing to leave care

    Findings from a survey of children in care and care leavers on the planning and preparation that happens before leaving care.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Ofsted social care research
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Consultation on national standards for unregulated provision: analytical report

    Analysis of the responses to the Department for Education’s (DfE) consultation on introducing national standards for unregulated provision.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated: