Painting by numbers ...

I did this before the summer, its a look at how referrals I dealt with broke down into 'types'. I don't think there were any major surprises.

I intend to do this again post 'Saville' it will be interesting to see if the spike in referrals relating to sexual abuse that the NSPCC reported is represented in our team.

This represents 153 separate referrals and 293 children.

Parental/Carer neglect of child       13.1%

Parental Mental Health Problems   10.5%

Parental Substance Abuse   9.2%

Domestic Violence     9.8%

Physical abuse at hands of parent/carer   7.2%

Request from court for letter or assessment.        7.2%

Relationship Problems between child & parent    5.9%

Other  5.2%

Child Homeless          4.6%

Parent Having Inapproriate Relationship  4.6%

Child's Sexualised behaviour          3.3%

Sexual abuse of child by non family member       2.6%

Sexual Abuse Allegation By Child Against Parent/Carer  2.6%

parent homeless       2.6%

Parental relationship breakdown   2.0%

Child's Mental Health           2.0%

Physical abuse at hands of sibling  1.3%

Request from Prisoner to see child 1.3%

Young Carer's            1.3%

Sexual abuse by parent against someone other than their own child   0.7%

Sexual abuse sibling on sibling       0.7%

Emotional Harm        0.7%

CP Transfer in from other LA          0.7%

LAC Having Child Themselves         0.7%

No recourse to public funds            0.7%

I have detail of the number of children that each referral related to, no surprises there either. For example 'neglect' referrals frequently come from larger families. 

Comments welcome!