I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information.

1. Please provide the total number of CONTACTS received by Children’s Social Care Services each year in the last ten years (where figures are available). For the avoidance of doubt, this refers to all contacts (by phone, email, webform or in person) made by individuals or agencies. We are NOT requesting “Referrals” (as detailed in table C1 of the Dept for Education’s Children in Need tables
We currently have data from 2020/21 to current year
2020-2021: 9384
2021-2022: 10745
2022-2023: 12420
2023-2024: 12571
2024-2025: 13731
2025-2026: 10312