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  • Northern Ireland children's social services data (provisional)

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

    Date published: 21 May 2025

    Provisional monthly management information derived from HSC Trust systems in regards to children's social care services in Northern Ireland. These figures are provisional and subject to change.

    The information used to populate the monthly children’s social services data is taken from the HSC Trusts’ individual management systems. A review of the data has identified that the child referral data from South Eastern HSC Trust excluded some categories of referrals that are included in the other HSC Trust figures.

    To ensure consistency across all HSC Trusts, referral data from the time period April 2021 – July 2024 has therefore been revised, which has caused an increase in the Northern Ireland figure for the whole relevant time series. This only affects the overall child referral figures and not the child protection referral figures.

    From December 2024 onwards, this information has been made available in HTML format.

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    • Northern Ireland Children's Social Services Monthly Provisional Data April 2025…
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