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  • Child protection register

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

    The child protection register is a confidential list of all children in the area who have been identified at a child protection conference as being at significant risk of harm.

    Please note that during the Covid-19 pandemic, a more frequent, high level child protection data collection has temporarily been established from management information. This collection can be accessed here:

    Northern Ireland children's social services data during COVID-19

    Current publication

    • Quarterly child protection statistics for Northern Ireland January - March 2025
    • Children's social care statistics for Northern Ireland 2023/24

    Previous publication

    • Quarterly child protection statistics for Northern Ireland October - December 2024
    • Quarterly child protection statistics for Northern Ireland July - September 2024
    • Quarterly child protection statistics for Northern Ireland April - June 2024
    • Children's social care statistics for Northern Ireland 2022/23

    Until 2012 this publication was divided into two publications titled ‘Children order statistical tables’ and ‘Children order statistical trends’.

    For older publications, use the publications search

    Information sources

    • Corporate parenting returns
    • Quality report for child order statistical publications

    For further information contact us

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    • Children’s day care
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    • Monthly provisional children’s services data
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