Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many child protection referrals were made to Children's Services in each month of 2020.

The monthly figures on the number of child protection referrals that were made to children’s social care services in England, up to March 2020, are published in the ‘Characteristics of children in need’ statistical release: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need.

The Vulnerable Children and Young People Survey collects fortnightly data from local authorities in England on the number of referrals made to children’s social care services. The data for the full month is not collected.

The attached tables show the number of referrals to children’s social care services, where the data is available for 2020.