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Cohort profile: Children in Need Census (CIN) records of children referred for social care support in England

PURPOSE: The Children in Need Census (CIN) is a case-based administrative dataset on children referred to social care services in England. CIN includes information on the ‘needs’ of children, and whether they received social care support. Local and national government bodies in England currently use...

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Autores principales: Emmott, Emily H, Jay, Matthew A, Woodman, Jenny
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6398790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30798306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023771
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description PURPOSE: The Children in Need Census (CIN) is a case-based administrative dataset on children referred to social care services in England. CIN includes information on the ‘needs’ of children, and whether they received social care support. Local and national government bodies in England currently use CIN for evaluation purposes. Data are accessible to researchers under certain conditions, allowing researchers to investigate the health implications of adverse childhood experiences. However, CIN suffers from lack of metadata, meaning it can be challenging for researchers to process and interpret data, particularly if researchers are unfamiliar with the English children’s social care system. To address this issue, we provide the background to CIN and describe the available data from 2008 to 2016. PARTICIPANTS: CIN is derived from case records held by English local authorities on all children referred to children’s social care for a ‘needs assessment’, regardless of whether they are eventually assessed as ‘in need of social care support’. Local authorities submit these case records to the UK Department for Education for collation. CIN holds information on an estimated 2.76 million children from October 2008 to March 2016. Since 2013/2014, just under 900 000 children have been recorded in the CIN annually, equivalent to around 8% of children in England (annual prevalence). Approximately, 650 000 children enter or renter the dataset each year, equivalent to 5% of children in England (annual incidence). DATA SUMMARY: Of the estimated 2.76 million children in the data, 50% are male and 47% female. 45% are referred to children’s social care services due to abuse or neglect. 10.7% of children in CIN went onto a child protection plan, meaning they were judged to be (at risk of) suffering significant harm. FUTURE PLANS: CIN data collection is annual and ongoing. Data from the most recent census period typically become available for researchers in the following Spring.
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spelling pubmed-63987902019-03-20 Cohort profile: Children in Need Census (CIN) records of children referred for social care support in England Emmott, Emily H Jay, Matthew A Woodman, Jenny BMJ Open Paediatrics PURPOSE: The Children in Need Census (CIN) is a case-based administrative dataset on children referred to social care services in England. CIN includes information on the ‘needs’ of children, and whether they received social care support. Local and national government bodies in England currently use CIN for evaluation purposes. Data are accessible to researchers under certain conditions, allowing researchers to investigate the health implications of adverse childhood experiences. However, CIN suffers from lack of metadata, meaning it can be challenging for researchers to process and interpret data, particularly if researchers are unfamiliar with the English children’s social care system. To address this issue, we provide the background to CIN and describe the available data from 2008 to 2016. PARTICIPANTS: CIN is derived from case records held by English local authorities on all children referred to children’s social care for a ‘needs assessment’, regardless of whether they are eventually assessed as ‘in need of social care support’. Local authorities submit these case records to the UK Department for Education for collation. CIN holds information on an estimated 2.76 million children from October 2008 to March 2016. Since 2013/2014, just under 900 000 children have been recorded in the CIN annually, equivalent to around 8% of children in England (annual prevalence). Approximately, 650 000 children enter or renter the dataset each year, equivalent to 5% of children in England (annual incidence). DATA SUMMARY: Of the estimated 2.76 million children in the data, 50% are male and 47% female. 45% are referred to children’s social care services due to abuse or neglect. 10.7% of children in CIN went onto a child protection plan, meaning they were judged to be (at risk of) suffering significant harm. FUTURE PLANS: CIN data collection is annual and ongoing. Data from the most recent census period typically become available for researchers in the following Spring. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6398790/ /pubmed/30798306 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023771 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Woodman, Jenny
Cohort profile: Children in Need Census (CIN) records of children referred for social care support in England
title Cohort profile: Children in Need Census (CIN) records of children referred for social care support in England
title_full Cohort profile: Children in Need Census (CIN) records of children referred for social care support in England
title_fullStr Cohort profile: Children in Need Census (CIN) records of children referred for social care support in England
title_full_unstemmed Cohort profile: Children in Need Census (CIN) records of children referred for social care support in England
title_short Cohort profile: Children in Need Census (CIN) records of children referred for social care support in England
title_sort cohort profile: children in need census (cin) records of children referred for social care support in england
topic Paediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6398790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30798306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023771
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