Safeguarding Pressures Phase 7 Interim Report

07 Dec 2020 in Safeguarding and Child Protection > Safeguarding & Child Protection >

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ADCS has collected both qualitative and quantitative data from local authorities to evidence and better understand changes in demand for, and provision of, children’s social care.

This interim report provides key headlines of the pressures faced by local authorities during 2019/20 while also a focus activity in the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic. This is the seventh phase of study, meaning we can now compare data over a twelve-year period. The interim study draws together survey responses from 79% (119) of all local authorities in England, covering 84% of England’s child population. This, together with existing data, provides an insight into the safeguarding related pressures facing children’s services across the country. As at 31 March 2020 an estimated 2.44 million contacts were made to children’s social care in 2019/20, an increase of 94% since 2008 and an estimated 81,670 children and young people were in care, an increase of 8.2% since 2018.

• Safeguarding Pressures Phase 7 - Interim report (pdf)

To accompany the latest report, ADCS has updated the timeline which illustrates the events and changes that impact on safeguarding children and young people in England.

Children’s Services Policy Timeline 2007 onwards