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Referrals to children's social care which resulted in assessment and child assessed not to be in need (number) (8909) Metric type
- Help text
- This is the number of referrals to children's social care which result in an initial assessment and where the child is assessed as not in need. A referral is defined as a request for services to be provided by children's social care and is in respect of a child who is currently not assessed to be in need. An initial assessment is a brief assessment of the child's needs. It 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 (see next section for more details on Section 47).
A referral may result in an initial assessment of the child's needs, the provision of information or advice, referral to another agency or no further action. Children in need are those who have been referred to the local authority and have been assessed to be in need of services. These services can include, for example, family support (to help keep together families experiencing difficulties), leaving care support (to help young people who have left local authority care), adoption support, or disabled children's services (including social care, education and health provision).
New information relating to children who are already assessed to be a child in need is not counted as a referral. Taken from Characteristics of Children in need, table C1.
- Modified
- 29 Oct 2021
- Data last updated
- 11 Nov 2022
- Short label
- Referrals which resulted in assessment and child assessed not to be in need
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Number
- Dataset
- Number of referrals in the year ending 31 March and rates per 10,000 children
- Source
- Department for Education
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