The Children’s Society has said the first Covid-19 lockdown may explain the increase in serious incident notifications reported to Ofsted by local authorities between April and September 2020.
Serious incident notifications involve death or serious harm to a child where abuse or neglect is known or suspected, and also deaths of children in care and children in regulated settings.
Between April and September last year Ofsted received 285 serious incident notifications, a 27 per cent increase on the same period in 2019/20, figures show.
Of these notifications, 119 related to child deaths, an increase from 89 in the same period of 2019/20.
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