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Initial assessments completed in 16-20 days
(2234)
Metric type
- Help text
- Discontinued, last published data 2013/14.
This is the number of initial assessments following the referral of a child to children's social care, which are completed in 16-20 days.
On receipt of a referral the local authority has one working day to decide what further work needs to be done. If more investigation is needed then an initial assessment will be carried out. However, it may be that the referral can be resolved by providing some information, or referring to another agency or in some cases, no further action at all is needed.
An initial assessment is defined as a brief assessment of any child who has been referred to children’s social care services with a request that services be provided. An initial assessment is deemed to have started either at the point of referral to a social care services department, or when new information on an open case indicates that an initial assessment should be repeated. The expected timescale for the completion of an initial assessment is a maximum of 10 working days.An initial assessment may lead to no further action, the direct provision of services and/or a more in depth core assessment within which section 47 enquiries may be encompassed.
- Modified
- 11 Nov 2020
- Data last updated
- 23 Jun 2022
- Also known as
- Number of initial assessments completed in 16-20 days
- Short label
- Initial assessments, 16-20 days
- Status
- Discontinued
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Count
- Dataset
- Number of assessments completed by children's social care services in the year ending 31 March
- Source
- Department for Education
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