Episodes of need in children's social care by risk factor, 2014/15–2023/24

Source: Institute for Government analysis of DfE, 'Children in need', 2014/15–2023/24.Notes: Analysis covers England only. An episode of need begins when a child is referred to children's social care services and is assessed as being in need of those services. A child can have more than one episode of need during the year. Factors do not sum to 100% as the majority of children have more than one factor recorded for each episode of need. 'Mental health' includes instances where mental health is identified as an issue of concern, including when it is another person's mental health. 'Child's own mental health' is a subset of the wider mental health category - data was not split out into these subsets until 2017/18.Get the data Download image
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