Social Services: Lancashire

(asked on 10th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people used children and young people's social care services in each district authority in Lancashire in the last period for which figures are available.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 16th March 2015

The available information is given in the table below:

Referrals to children’s social care, children in need and children looked after in Lancashire local authority in the year ending 31 March 2014.

Number

Referrals1,2 to children’s social care throughout the year

19,460

Children in need1 as of 31 March 2014

9,035

Children looked after as of 31 March 2014

1,590

Source: Children in Need census, SSDA903

1. Lancashire used two reporting systems to produce their Children in Need return in 2014 so we highlighted in the publication that we had some concerns over the quality of the data.

2. If a child has more than one referral in the year then each will be counted.

This data is only available at local authority and national level. Figures on referrals and children in need are published annually within the ‘Characteristics of children in need’ statistical first release:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2013-to-2014

Figures on the number of children looked after are published annually within the ‘Children looked after in England, including adoption’ statistical first release: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-looked-after-in-england-including-adoption--2

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