SUMMARY
The study found nearly 15 per cent of children referred to children's services during that time were re-referred in the same year. By 2011/12 some 30 per cent had been re-referred and the proportion reached 50 per cent by 2015/16, implying that within six years half of all the children referred to children's services returned at least once. The re-referral rate varied widely across local authorities.
Around nine per cent of all children in the sample - 17 per cent of all re-referred children - were re-referred in at least three years out of the six years they were tracked by the study.
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