School Home Support (SHS), which deploys more than 60 support workers into schools across the south of England, said less support from councils and rising child protection thresholds have caused a rapid increase in the proportion of safeguarding cases it is involved with.
In 2016/17 the proportion of safeguarding cases it was involved in was 17.3 per cent, more than treble the 5.6 per cent in 2010/11.
The number of safeguarding cases over the same period has increased from 3,942 to 6,760. In 2015/16 the charity carried out 4,092 safeguarding interventions - making up 9.3 per cent of cases it was involved with.
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