Children: Social Services

(asked on 19th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on changes to the level of children (a) known to social services and (b) taken into care.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 22nd December 2017

The Department for Education collects annual data from local authorities on children who are referred to social care through the children in need census and on children who start to be looked after through the looked after children collection.

Figures for each are published in the Characteristics of children in need: 2016 to 2017 statistical release at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2016-to-2017 and in the Children looked after in England including adoption: 2016 to 2017 statistical release at https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption-2016-to-2017.

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