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  • Quarterly child protection statistics for Northern Ireland January - March 2025

    Topics:
    • Social Care Policy, 
    • DoH Statistics and Research, 
    • Children's services statistics

    Date published: 13 May 2025

    This publication presents information on the number of children on the child protection register at the end of each quarter by age, gender, category of abuse, legal status and duration on the register. The number of child protection referrals received during each quarter is reported by source of referral. From November 2022, this information has been made available in both HTML and Excel table format.

    Please also note that Belfast HSC Trust data for quarter ending December 2024 was revised in March 2025.

    Full report:

    Quarterly Child Protection Statistics for Northern Ireland March 2025 (HTML)

    Tabular data available below:

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    • Quarterly Child Protection Statistics for Northern Ireland January - March 2025 Microsoft Excel (33 KB)
    • Pre-Release Access List Quarterly Child Protection Statistics for Northern Ireland Adobe PDF (91 KB)

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