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Social care data to accompany the Ofsted Annual Report 2022/23.
This release includes registered childcare providers and places, inspection outcomes, and joiners and leavers as at 31 August 2023.
Information on looked after children at both national and local authority levels for the financial year 2022 to 2023.
This publication presents information on the number of children on the child protection register at the end of each quarter.
This quarterly report presents Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) waiting times.
This report examines the multi-agency response to children and families who need help, using information from 5 inspections of local authority areas.
Annual datasets for local authority metrics on outcomes for children at 2 to 2 and a half years as measured by the Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3 (ASQ-3).
This publication presents key statistical information relating to Health Reviews for pre-school children in Northern Ireland.
These tables set out the number and rate of children referred for an assessment for autism and the number and rate of children diagnosed with autism each quarter.
Research on how likely childcare providers are to implement proposed changes to the early years foundation stage.
A report evaluating the statutory EYFS 2021 reforms, aimed at improving early years outcomes for all children.
Statistics on children referred to and assessed by children's social services for the year ending 31 March 2023.
Children’s social care statistics for Northern Ireland presents figures, collected from each of the five health and social care trusts, for children in need at 31 March and year ending 31 March.
What children and young people have told us about their experiences of living in social care settings, including children’s homes, boarding schools, living with foster carers and staying at residential special schools.
Analysis of female to male birth ratios in the United Kingdom for the period 2017 to 2021.
This annual publication details statistical information on children adopted from care in Northern Ireland.
Quarterly statistics on the Child Maintenance Service to June 2023.
A research report and data tables summarising mixed methodology research into the impact of Tax-Free Childcare on parental labour market participation.
This quarterly publication provides an overview on the performance of the Child Maintenance Service in Northern Ireland. This publication contains information up to the quarter ending June 2023.
This report summarises evaluation findings from the Reducing Parental Conflict Programme (RPC) between summer 2020 and summer 2022, as well as final qualitative research conducted in 2022.
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