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  • Outcomes for children in need, including children looked after by local authorities, in England: 2022 to 2023

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

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: looked-after children and 1 others
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Sustainability and climate change strategy: user group report

    An independent assessment of progress on the Department for Education (DfE)’s strategy.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Regional adoption agencies – thematic inspection report

    Ofsted’s thematic review of regional adoption agencies (RAA)

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Children’s homes workforce census: stage 1 findings 2023

    Findings from stage 1 of the children’s homes workforce census.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Supported accommodation review: what matters most for children

    A rapid review of evidence that provides insight into what constitutes a positive experience and a good life for children in supported accommodation.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Children's social work workforce 2023

    Annual statistics on children and family social workers including agency children and family social workers in England.

    • Document type: Official Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: children's social work workforce
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Quarterly Child Protection Statistics for Northern Ireland (December 2023)

    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:
  • Northern Ireland Care Leavers 2022/23

    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:
  • Good decisions: children with complex needs in children's homes

    A report on what ‘complex needs’ means to local authority and children’s home staff and how they support children with these needs.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Herefordshire children's services: commissioner reports

    Independent reports on the delivery of children's services from the Secretary of State’s Children’s Services Commissioner in Herefordshire.

    • Document type: Independent report
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Children’s social care data for the Ofsted Annual Report 2022/23

    Social care data to accompany the Ofsted Annual Report 2022/23.

    • Document type: Statistical data set
    • Part of a collection: Ofsted Annual Report 2022/23
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Children looked after in England including adoption: 2022 to 2023

    Information on looked-after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2022 to 2023.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: looked-after children
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Quarterly Child Protection Statistics for Northern Ireland (September 2023)

    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:
  • The multi-agency response to children and families who need help

    This report examines the multi-agency response to children and families who need help, using information from 5 inspections of local authority areas.

    • Document type: Research
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Children in need: 2022 to 2023

    Statistics on children referred to and assessed by children's social services for the year ending 31 March 2023.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Part of a collection: Statistics: children in need and child protection
    • Organisation: Department for Education
    • Updated:
  • Childrens Social Care Statistics for Northern Ireland 2022/23

    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.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Children’s social care questionnaires 2023: what children and young people told Ofsted

    What children and young people have told us about their experiences of living in social care settings, including children’s homes, boarding schools, living with foster carers and staying at residential special schools.

    • Document type: Research
    • Part of a collection: Social care questionnaires: what children and young people told Ofsted
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Children Adopted from Care in Northern Ireland 2022/23

    This annual publication details statistical information on children adopted from care in Northern Ireland.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated:
  • Children’s social care data in England 2023

    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 and 1 others
    • Organisation: Ofsted
    • Updated:
  • Children in Care in Northern Ireland 2021/22

    This publication presents information on children in Northern Ireland who have been looked after continuously for 12 months or longer at 30 September each year.

    • Document type: National Statistics
    • Organisation: Department of Health (Northern Ireland) and 1 others
    • Updated: