March 2020
- One children in care indicator in the Primary Prevention – Vulnerability domain at County and UA and Region level (2019)
- One NEET indicator in the Primary Prevention – Vulnerability domain at County and UA level (2018)
- One self-harm admissions indicator in the Identification of Need domain at County and UA level (April 2018 to March 2019)
February 2020
One indicator has been added to the Identification of Need domain (2017/18)
- Estimated number of children and young people with mental disorders - aged 5 to 17 (CCGs, County and UA)
One indicator has been removed from the Identification of Need domain (2015/16)
- Estimated prevalence of mental health disorders in children and young people: % population aged 5-16 (County and UA)
One indicator has been updated in the Identification of Need domain (2018/19)
- Cause for concern - Looked after children where there is cause for concern: % of looked after children (County and UA)
Two indicators have been updated in the Protective Factors domain: (2018/19)
- School Readiness: % of all eligible children (County and UA)
- School Readiness (children with free school meal status): % of all eligible children with free school meal status (County and UA)
September 2019
No indicators were updated in September 2019
August 2019
One indicator has been updated in the Primary prevention: vulnerability tab (2016/17 and 2017/18):
- Children leaving care: rate per 10,000 children aged under 18 (County and UA)
July 2019
Two indicators have been updated in the Primary prevention: vulnerability tab (2017/18):
- Pupil absence (County and UA, District and UA, PHE Centres, Regions)
- First time entrance to the youth justice system (County and UA, PHE Centres, Regions)
June 2019
One indicator has been updated in the Identification of Need domain (2017/18):
- Percentage of children where there is a cause for concern (County and UA)
March 2019
Two indicators have been updated in the Identification of Need domain (2017/18):
- Hospital admissions as a result of self-harm (10-24 years) (County & UA)
- Hospital admissions as a result of self-harm by age (County & UA)
Three indicators have been updated in the Primary prevention: adversity domain (2016 unless stated):
- Child poverty under 16 (County, UA & District)
- Child poverty under 20 (County, UA & District)
- Family homelessness: rate per 1,000 households (County & UA) (2017/18)
One indicator has been updated in the Primary prevention: vulnerability domain (2018):
- Children in care: rate per 10,000 population aged under 18 (County)
February 2019
Two indicators have been updated in the Protective factors domain:
- School Readiness: The percentage of children achieving a good level of development at the end of reception (County)
- School Readiness: The percentage of children achieving a good level of development at the end of reception with free school meal status (County)
Seven indicators have been updated in the Primary prevention: adversity domain:
- Repeat child protection cases: Percentage of children who became the subject of a child protection plan for a second or subsequent time (County)
- Abuse and neglect: Rate per 10,000 children subject of a child protection plan with initial category of abuse (County)
- Abuse and neglect: Rate per 10,000 children subject of a child protection plan with initial category of neglect (County)
- Children started to be looked after due to abuse or neglect: rate per 10,000 <18 population (County)
- Children in need due to abuse or neglect: rate per 10,000 resident population aged under 18 years (County)
- Children in need due to parental disability or illness: rate per 10,000 resident population aged under 18
- Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children looked after (County)
Two indicators have been updated in the Primary prevention: vulnerability domain:
- Children in need due to socially unacceptable behaviour: rate per 10,000 resident population aged under 18 (County)
- Children in need due to child disability or illness: rate per 10,000 resident population aged under 18 (County)
Four indicators have been updated in the Finance domain:
- Spend (£000s) on Local Authority children and young people's services (excluding education): rate per 10,000 aged 0-17 (County)
- Spend (£000s) on Sure Start Children's Centres and early years: rate per 10,000 0-17 (County)
- Spend (£000s) on Children looked after: rate per 10,000 0-17 (County)
- Spend (£000s) on Safeguarding children and young people's services: rate per 10,000 0-17 (County)
One indicator (Looked after children: rate per 10,000 population aged under 18) has been removed from the Primary prevention: vulnerability domain and replaced with the following indicator:
- Children in care: rate per 10,000 population aged under 18 (County)
The following indicator has been added to the Primary prevention: vulnerability domain:
- Not in education, employment or training or whose activity is not known: % of 16-17 year olds (County)
This indicator reflects an updated methodology for the ‘Not in education employment or training: % of 16 - 18 year olds- historical method' indicator which we plan to remove for the profile in the near future.
November 2018
One indicator has been updated in the Primary Prevention: Adversity domain:
- Uptake of free school meals (County)
Three indicators have been updated in the Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domain:
- Fixed period exclusion due to persistent disruptive behaviour: rate per 100 school age pupils (County)
- Primary school fixed period exclusions: rate per 100 pupils (County)
- Secondary school fixed period exclusions: rate per 100 pupils (County)
Two indicators have been updated in the Finance domain:
- Planned spend (£000s) on special schools: spend per 100,000 pupils (County)
- Planned spend (£000s) on pupil referral units: spend per 100,000 pupils (County)
The Confidence Intervals for the following indicator have been corrected:
- Children leaving care: rate per 10,000 <18 population (County)
September 2018
One indicator has been updated in the Identification of Need domain (2017)
- Pupils with social, emotional, and mental health needs (County) (School age, secondary & primary)
Two indicators have been updated in the Primary Prevention: Adversity domain (2015) (district level, counties were updated previously)
- Child poverty under 16
- Child poverty under 20
One indicator has been updated in the Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domain (2017)
- Pupils with special educational needs (SEN) (County) (School age, secondary & primary)
May 2018
The following indicator in the Primary Prevention: Vulnerability Domain has been amended:
- Pupils with learning disability - The 2016 values have been amended to include special schools
The following indicators in the Primary Prevention: Adversity Domain have been amended:
- Children who started to be looked after due to abuse or neglect – values for 2016 previously showed values reported for 2017, this has now been corrected to reflect values for 2016.
- Children who started to be looked after due to family stress or dysfunction or absent parenting - confidence intervals for the 2016 values have been corrected
April 2018
In Primary Prevention: Adversity domain, the following indicators have been updated:
- Children who started to be looked after due to family stress or dysfunction or absent parenting: rate per 10 000 children aged under 18
- Children in need due to family stress or dysfunction or absent parenting: rate per 10 000 children aged under 18
- Children in need due to abuse or neglect: rate per 10 000 children aged under 18 years
- Children in need due to parent disability or illness: rate per 10 000 children under 18
- Repeat child protection cases: % of children subject to a child protection plan
- Children subject to a child protection plan with initial category of abuse: rate per 10 000 children aged under 18
- Children subject to a child protection plan with initial category of neglect: rate per 10 000 children aged under 18
In Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domain, the following indicators have been updated:
- Children in need due to child disability or illness: rate per 10 000 children aged under 18 years
- Pupils with Learning Disability: % of school aged pupils
February 2018
In Identification of Need domain, the following indicators have been updated:
- Pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs (Primary school age)
- Pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs (Secondary school age)
- Pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs (School age)
In Primary Prevention: Adversity domain, the following indicators have been updated:
- Uptake of free school meals: % of all schoolchildren
- Children who started to be looked after due to abuse or neglect: rate per 10 000 children aged under 18
- Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children looked after: count
In Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domain, the following indicator has been updated:
- Children in need due to socially unacceptable behaviour: rate per 10 000 aged under 18
Three indicators were also updated and the name changed from % to rate per 100:
- Fixed period exclusion due to persistent disruptive behaviour: rate per 100 school aged pupils
- Primary school fixed period exclusions: rate per 100 pupils
- Secondary school fixed period exclusions: rate per 100 pupils
The definition for the following indicators in the Primary Prevention: Adversity and Primary Prevention: Vulnerability domains have also been corrected:
- Children in need due to family stress or dysfunction or absent parenting: rate per 10,000 children aged under 18
- Children in need due to abuse or neglect: rate per 10,000 children aged under 18 years
- Children in need due to parent disability or illness: rate per 10,000 children under 18
- Children in need due to child disability or illness: rate per 10,000 children aged under 18 years
- Children in need due to socially unacceptable behaviour: rate per 10 000 aged under 18
In the definitions tab, the denominator for these indicators were defined as ‘All children identified as 'in need' on 31st March’, however the mid-year population estimate for 0-17 year olds were used. The definition now shows the correct denominator.
In the finance domain, all indicators have been updated:
- Spend (£000s) on Local Authority children and young people's services (excluding education): rate (£) per 10,000 aged 0-17
- Spend (£000s) on Sure Start Children's Centres and early years: rate (£) per 10,000 aged 0-17
- Spend (£000s) on Children looked after: rate (£) per 10,000 aged 0-17
- Spend (£000s) on Safeguarding children and young people's services: rate (£) per 10,000 aged 0-17
- Planned spend (£000s) on special schools: rate (£) per 100,000 pupils
- Planned spend (£000s) on pupil referral units: rate (£) per 100,000 pupils
- Spend (£000s) on Youth justice: rate (£) per 10,000 aged 0-17
October 2017
Opportunity for feedback: We are very interested in any feedback on the downloadable outputs which are available from the download section of the tool. The survey has now closed.
August 2017
In Identification of Need domain two indicators have been corrected:
- Pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs (primary school age)
- Pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs (secondary school age)
These had been calculated using total pupils with SEN as the denominator, instead of total pupils. This has now been corrected.
July 2017
Release of phase 1 re-developed profile.
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