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30th December 2024
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Children in Need
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1. For the 2024/25 financial year, please provide the total number of children and young people aged 10 to 18 who were recorded as Children in Need during the financial year. Please break this information down by age and gender. If age is recorded in bands rather than single years, please provide the data using the age bands held.
Please refer the data published in the link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/children-in-need-2024-to-2025
2. For the 2024/25 financial year, please also provide the number of children and young people aged 10 to 18 who became looked after by the local authority during the financial year, where the child or young person had previously been recorded as a Child in Need within the previous 12 months. Please break this information down by age at entry to care and gender.
The number of children who became looked after in 2024–25 was 63.
Of these, 13 children had been referred for a Child in Need plan within the previous 12 months.
