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  • Children's services statistics

    Topics:
    • Social Care Policy, 
    • DoH Statistics and Research, 
    • Social care statistics
    The information found in children’s social care relates to data on those services provided for children. This includes information on children in need, children on the child protection register, looked after children and young people who have left care.

    More in this topic

    • Children in need
    • Child protection register
    • Looked after children
    • Children adopted from care
    • Care leavers
    • Children’s day care
    • Monthly provisional children’s services data
    • Children and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) statistics

    Related to Children's services statistics

    Most recent publications

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

      Published 13 May 2025
    • Northern Ireland children's social services data (provisional)

      Published 17 April 2025
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    Most recent consultations

    • National statistics consultation on proposed changes to DHSSPS statistical publications

      Published 22 October 2015 Consultation closed
    See all consultations in this topic

    Most recent news items

    • Publication of ‘Children’s Social Care Statistics for NI 2018/19’

      Published 10 October 2019
    • Publication of ‘Children’s Social Care Statistics for NI 2017/18’

      Published 11 October 2018
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