CYP Now - Referrals and Child Protection in England: One in Five Children Referred to Children's Services and One in Nineteen Investigated before the Age of Five

This quantitative study focuses on the high proportion of children referred to children's services and the increasing use of statutory interventions.

This study found that 22.5 per cent of children born in the 2009/10 financial year were referred to children's social care before their fifth birthday. It is estimated that child protection investigations were carried out into the circumstances of 5.4 per cent of all children born 2009/10.

Data was collected following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request sent in mid-2015 to all 152 local authorities in England for national statistics on children born between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2010. A total of 114 (75 per cent) of authorities provided data. Office for National Statistics population data for children aged one or under on 30 June 2010 were used as a proxy to calculate the number of children in each authority in 2009/10.

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