Statistics from Ofsted including data for children’s homes and other social care providers, fostering, inspections of local authority children’s services, and serious incident notifications from local authority children’s services.

Latest official statistics

  1. Children’s Social Care data in England 2020
    • National Statistics
  2. Local authority and children’s homes in England inspections and outcomes – autumn 2019
    • Official Statistics
  3. Fostering in England 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019
    • National Statistics
  4. Children’s Social Care data in England 2019
    • National Statistics
  5. Serious incident notifications from local authority children’s services 2017 to 2018
    • Official Statistics

Previous official statistics

  1. Local authority and children’s homes in England inspections and outcomes: autumn 2018
    • Official Statistics
  2. Fostering in England 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018
    • National Statistics
  3. Children’s social care data in England 2018
    • National Statistics
  4. Fostering in England 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017
    • National Statistics
  5. Local authority and children’s homes in England inspections and outcomes
    • Official Statistics
  6. Serious incident notifications from local authority children’s services 2016 to 2017
    • Official Statistics
  7. Children’s social care data in England 2017
    • National Statistics
  8. Fostering in England 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016
    • National Statistics
  9. Local authority and children’s homes in England inspection outcomes as at 30 September 2016
    • Official Statistics
  10. Children’s social care data in England 2016
    • Official Statistics
  11. Local authority and children’s homes in England inspection outcomes
    • Official Statistics
  12. Serious incident notifications from local authority children’s services 2015 to 2016
    • Official Statistics
  13. Children looked after placements as at 31 March 2015
    • National Statistics
  14. Fostering in England 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015
    • National Statistics
  15. Serious incident notifications from local authority children’s services 2014 to 2015
    • Official Statistics
  16. Children looked after placements as at 31 March 2014
    • Official Statistics
  17. Children’s social care in England 2015
    • Official Statistics
  18. Fostering in England 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014
    • Official Statistics
  19. Adoption agencies data in England: 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014
    • Official Statistics
  20. Fostering in England 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013
    • Official Statistics
  21. Children’s homes: inspection and outcomes July 2014 to September 2014
    • Statistical data set
  22. Children’s social care: inspections and outcomes April to September 2014
    • Statistical data set
  23. Local authority children’s services inspections and outcomes
    • Official Statistics
  24. Children’s social care: providers and places November 2014
    • Official Statistics
  25. Children’s social care: inspections and outcomes April 2014 to June 2014
    • Official Statistics
  26. Adoption agencies data in England: 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013
    • Official Statistics

Management information

  1. Inspection outcomes of the largest children’s social care providers
    • Transparency data
  2. Children’s social care data for the Ofsted Annual Report 2017/18
    • Statistical data set
  3. Children’s social care data for the Ofsted Annual Report 2016/17
    • Statistical data set
  4. Inspection outcomes of children’s homes
    • Transparency data
  5. Social care provision ownership and inspection outcomes: management information
    • Official Statistics

FOI datasets

  1. Ofsted Freedom of Information request datasets 2017: social care
    • FOI release
  2. Ofsted Freedom of Information request datasets 2015 and 2016: social care
    • FOI release
  3. FOI: Social care dataset as at 31 March 2016
    • Statistical data set
  4. Social care FOI request datasets: 2013 and 2014
    • FOI release

Transparency datasets

Information that Ofsted publishes for transparency purposes.

  1. Fostering and adoption agency datasets
    • Transparency data

Published 12 December 2014
Last updated 7 July 2020 + show all updates

  1. Added ‘Children’s social care data in england 2020’ to the collection.

  2. Added the ‘Local authority and children’s homes in England inspections and outcomes – autumn 2019’ release to the collection.

  3. Added Fostering in England 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019 release to the collection.

  4. Added ‘Inspection outcomes of children’s homes’ to the collection.

  5. Added the link to ‘Inspection outcomes of the largest children’s social care providers’ to the management information section.

  6. Added new children’s social care data in England 2019 statistics.

  7. Added link to a formal consultation on inspections and outcomes for children’s homes and local authority children’s services statistical reporting.

  8. Added Fostering in England 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018 national statistics.

  9. Added ‘Children’s social care data for the Ofsted Annual Report 2017/18’ to Management Information collection.

  10. Added local authority and children’s homes in England inspections and outcomes. This release includes local authority inspection data and children’s homes inspection data, covering the period up until 30 September 2018.

  11. Added Social care ownership inspection outcome profiles

  12. Added Serious incident notifications from local authority children’s services 2017 to 2018

  13. FOI dataset as at 31 march 2018 uploaded to FOI dataset group

  14. Added children’s social care data in England 2018.

  15. Added children’s social care data for the Ofsted Annual Report 2016/17.

  16. added FOI: Social care dataset as at 31 March 2017.

  17. Added Children’s social care data 2017.

  18. Fostering in England statistics 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016 have been added.

  19. Added Local authority and children’s homes in England inspection outcomes as at 30 September 2016.

  20. Added ‘Ofsted Freedom of Information request datasets 2015 and 2016: social care’.

  21. Children’s social care data in England 2016 added.

  22. Updated with ‘FOI: Social care dataset as at 31 March 2016’ and ‘Children looked after placements as at 31 March 2015’.

  23. Added: local authority and children’s homes in England inspection outcomes.

  24. Updated for children looked after placements as at 31 March 2014.

  25. Latest children’s social care statistics published, including children’s homes.

  26. First published.

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