Accredited official statistics

Characteristics of children in need: 2012 to 2013

Children referred to and assessed by children's social services for the financial year ending March 2013.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 31 October 2013
• Last updated: 17 July 2014 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

SFR45/2013: Main text

PDF, 578 KB, 15 pages

SFR45/2013: Main tables

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 710 KB

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SFR45/2013: Methodology document

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SFR45/2013: Quality and uses of data

PDF, 498 KB, 26 pages

SFR45/2013: Underlying data

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SFR45/2013: Pre release access list

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SFR45/2013: Additional Tables

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SFR45/2013: Methodology document 2

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Details

The ‘Characteristics of Children in Need’ publication contains figures on the numbers of children referred to and assessed by children’s social services. It includes information on:

• the characteristics of children in need
• children who were the subject of a child protection plan for the year ending March 2013

All 24 tables from the publication are contained in the ‘SFR45/2013: Main tables’ excel document.

Additional analysis of children in need by characteristics available through matching to the national pupil database (NPD) was published on 27 February 2014.

This analysis includes local authority and national information on:

• matching rates
• prevalence of special educational needs and free school meals
• attainment at key stage 2, key stage 4, and progression between these key stages
• absence and exclusion rates all for children in need

The figures also include absence levels for children in need who were also subject to a child protection plan.

The tables from this additional analysis are contained in the ‘SFR45/2013: Additional tables’ excel document. Further details of the matching process and calculations included in these tables can be found in the accompanying methodology document ‘SFR45/2013: Methodology document 2’.

Contact details

Alison Butler

01325 735 419

[email protected]

Published 31 October 2013
Last updated 17 July 2014 + show all updates

1. 17 July 2014

   Change of contact details

2. 27 February 2014

   Pre-release access list updated.

3. 27 February 2014

   Added tables covering analysis of the 2012 to 2013 children in need census matched to the national pupil database

4. 31 October 2013

   First published.