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% |