Wales children in need census, 2012

Statistics on children in need include data for Wales for the period up to the end of March 2012. The latest release updates the statistics previously released on 29 February 2012.

The key points from this release are:

• there were 20,240 children in need included in the CIN census at 31 March 2012, which was a rate of 320 per 10,000 children aged under 18 years, and 70 who were unborn
• more than a third (36 per cent) of referrals were from local authority departments and a further 29 per cent from the police and primary or community health services
• a quarter (25 per cent) of children in need had a disability
• parental substance or alcohol misuse and domestic abuse were the most frequently recorded parenting capacity factors
• the attainment of children in need at each Key Stage assessment was much lower than the average for all pupils

Further information

StatsWales website (external link)

Contact

Tel: 029 2082 3625
E-mail: stats.pss@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Next update

February 2014 (provisional - to be confirmed on the 'Due out soon' page)