Child protection teams are coming under increasing pressure with numbers of children in care and numbers on child protection plans both rising in the past 12 months, a CYP Now investigation has found.
Freedom of Information requests to local authorities with responsibility for child protection have found that among the 109 councils that responded, numbers of children in care have increased 1.26 per cent between March 2014 and March 2015.
Meanwhile, numbers of children on child protection plans rose by 7.36 per cent during the same period.
The number of investigations to decide whether any action is necessary to safeguard a child - known as Section 47 enquiries - are also on the rise, up 11.78 per cent between 2013/14 and 2014/15.
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