Children in Need and Looked after Children Statistics: Consultation on Proposed Changes

The Department for Education is seeking feedback on proposed changes to the annual outcomes statistics for children in need and children looked after by local authorities. The proposed changes aim to improve the consistency of definitions and the range of children reported on and are being introduced following previous user feedback and a commitment made at the end of the review of children in need

Closing date: 29 October 2020

The policy paper setting out details of the proposed changes to the content of future publications and the way in which they will be published, and a link to an ad hoc release which illustrates some of these changes, are provided here >