At-Risk Children - Find a freedom of information request

Request

Please provide:

1. The number of at-risk children known to your local authority in the past five years (13 December 2017 to 13 December 2021). Please could this be broken down by year.

2. The number of at-risk children over the past five years (13 December 2017 to 13 December 2021) who have died.

3. For each incident, please could I have details of cause of death/injuries.

Decision

1. 

Year Number Notes
2017 10746 This represents the total number of children for 2017
2018 10054 This represents the total number of children for 2018
2019 10058 This represents the total number of children for 2019
2020 9380 This represents the total number of children for 2020
2021 9186 This represents the total number of children for 2021 up to 13/12/2021

The number of "at risk" children known to the local authority is deemed to be those that had an Open Social Care Referral/Request at any time during the year.

2. 

Year Number Notes
2017 3 This represents the total number of children for 2017
2018 1 This represents the total number of children for 2018
2019 3 This represents the total number of children for 2019
2020 2 This represents the total number of children for 2020
2021 3 This represents the total number of children for 2021 up to 13/12/2021

3. Over the past five years, the 12 total deaths can be attributed to: Seven Long Term Illness/Disability, One Suicide, Two Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Two Road Traffic Accidents.

Reference number
3024381
Date request received
13 December 2021
Date of decision
07 January 2022