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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.
Baroness Casey's audit on group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse ('grooming gangs').
Group-based child sexual exploitation, committed by grooming gangs, is one…
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.
Annual statistics for England on serious incidents that involve death or serious harm to a child due to abuse or neglect, and any death of a looked-after child.
Statistics on approved placements by type, sex, age, ethnicity and length of stay.
This publication presents information on the number of children on the child protection register at the end of each quarter.
Rapid evidence review of child and family social worker knowledge and skills.
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.
Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel report about safeguarding children from Black, Asian and Mixed Heritage backgrounds.
Report on research to develop a new multi-level model of relative need for children and young people’s services in local authorities, completed in January 2020.
Reports which explore how systems of support may protect young people from, or expose them to, involvement in serious youth violence.
Annual statistics on children and family social workers, including agency social workers, employed in local authorities in England.
A study of the local authority response to homeless children and young people.
Reports on children’s services in Stoke-on-Trent from the children’s services commissioner and the children's services improvement adviser.
An independent report on the delivery of children's services from the Children’s Commissioner in Halton.
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