Appendix 2 - Data

Appendix 2 - Safeguarding children and young people data

Early help activity through the Front Door.

Early Help Contacts

Agency

No. of Early Help Contacts

Police

1899

19.5%

Health

2499

25.7%

Education

1324

13.6%

Local Authority

2580

26.5%

Other

1131

11.6%

Family Action

283

2.9%

Total

9716

 

Request Type

Agency

Notification of EH Involvement

Register EH activity & Plan

Request for Support

Restorative Early Support Teams (REST)

Mindmate

Police

833

89.8%

29

2.6%

1037

26.0%

-

-

-

-

Health

-

-

112

10.2%

122

3.0%

19

5.9%

2246

72.0%

Education

14

1.5%

543

49.6%

593

14.9%

67

21.0%

107

3.4%

Local Authority

61

6.5%

263

24.0%

1992

50.0%

194

61.0%

70

2.2%

Other

19

2.0%

146

13.3%

233

5.8%

38

11.9%

695

22.2%

Total

927

9.8%

1093

11.5%

3977

42.1%

318

3.3%

3118

33.7%

 

Outcomes - Mindmate Requests

Outcome

No. of contacts

CAMHS

1077

34.4%

Cluster

719

22.9%

CPWP

234

7.4%

Support in place

194

6.1%

Marketplace

194

6.1%

No new service

164

5.2%

Family declined

144

4.6%

School support

158

5.0%

Other

246

7.8%

 

Outcomes – Early Help Notifications, Registrations, Requests and REST

Outcome

No. of contacts

Information Update

2892

45.7%

Information and Advice Given

2823

44.7%

Early Help Assessment

600

9.5%

Total

6315

The table below shows a breakdown of the child primary need in those cases.

Table 1: Family Action – early help contacts child primary need

Child Primary Need

No. of contacts

Abuse or Neglect

171   

71.8%

Emotional wellbeing/Mental health

98

34.6%

Missing education

4

1.4%

Domestic abuse

4

1.4%

Socially unacceptable behaviour

3

1.0%

Learning disability

2

0.7%

Problematic/harmful sexual behaviour

1

0.3%

Grand Total

283   

 

Age breakdown of early help plans and activity

The age groups of children who the early help plans and activities are being registered against.  236 (22.1%) were aged 0-4 years; 472 (44.3%) were aged 5-10 years; 300 (28.1%) were aged 11-15 years; 50 (4.6%) were aged 16 and over and the age of 6 (0.5%) children was not recorded.

The gender breakdown of these children shows 609 (57.2%) were male and 433 (40.6%) were female. A closer examination of the age and gender data shows that males aged 5-10 had the highest number of plans and activity being registered.  270 (44.3%) of the males that had plans or activity being registered were aged 5-10 years. 

CIN

Age breakdown of children and young people classed as CIN

Age cohort

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

Percentage of cohort under1

8.2%

4.8%

4.3%

Percentage of cohort 1-4

19.6%

17.7%

16.8%

Percentage of cohort 5-9

24.0%

23.3%

20.3%

Percentage of cohort 10-15

27.8%

27.7%

27.1%

Percentage of cohort 16+

20.4%

26.5%

31.4%

 

CPPs

Number subject to a child protection plan at the end of the year by category of abuse

Category of abuse

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

Physical abuse

73 (13.8%)

61 (14.7%)

84 (14.2%)

Emotional abuse

273 (51.8%)

230 (55.5%)

327 (55.4%)

Sexual abuse

14 (2.6%)

8 (1.9%)

34 (5.7%)

Neglect

167 (31.6%)

115 (27.7%)

145 (24.5%)

Total

527

414

590

Age breakdown of children subject to a CPP

 

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

Percentage of cohort under1

8.7%

11.1%

8.8%

Percentage of cohort 1-4

26.8%

21.7%

23.4%

Percentage of cohort 5-9

27.9%

31.2%

28.1%

Percentage of cohort 10-15

32.3%

32.4%

35.8%

Percentage of cohort 16+

4.4%

3.6%

3.9%

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