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Provisional quarterly live births, stillbirths, maternities and stillbirth rates by gestational age, age of mother, ethnicity, and area deprivation, for England and Wales.
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.
Annual update of indicators related to pregnancy and birth outcomes, educational outcomes and school attendance.
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.
Quarterly statistics on the Child Maintenance Service to June 2025.
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 March 2025.
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2024.
Evidence of providers’ finances from the 2024 survey of childcare and early years providers.
A report containing the findings from year 1 and year 2 of the Foster with North East evaluation.
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 provides an overview of the performance of the Child Maintenance Service in Northern Ireland and contains information up to the quarter ending June 2025.
This article presents analysis undertaken in collaboration with Loughborough University examining the bi-directional relationship between a child’s mental ill health and their absence from school.
A report into the drivers of confidence in maternal care services in England to gain evidence from ethnic minority women on their experiences of using maternal care services.
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