Children in Need 2024 and 2025

Request

(1) For the 2024/25 financial year, please provide the total number of children and young people aged 10 to 18 who were recorded as Children in Need during the financial year.

(1a) Please break this information down by age and gender. If age is recorded in bands rather than single years, please provide the data using the age bands held.



(2) For the 2024/25 financial year, please also provide the number of children and young people aged 10 to 18 who became looked after by the local authority during the financial year, where the child or young person had previously been recorded as a Child in Need within the previous 12 months.

(2a) Please break this information down by age at entry to care and gender.



If any of the above information is not held in a format that allows it to be extracted without manual review of individual case files, please confirm this.

Decision

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you. 

 

1. 4872

 

1a.

 

Male

Female

Unspecified

10

295

261

1

11

298

266

3

12

271

274

3

13

286

296

2

14

287

320

1

15

261

301

3

16

293

298

0

17

302

237

1

18

196

114

2

 

 

2. 132

 

2a.

 

Male

Female

Unspecified

10

6

4

0

11

1

4

0

12

6

7

0

13

4

7

0

14

7

7

0

15

6

4

0

16

35

6

0

17

23

5

0

18

0

0

0

Reference number
15531901
Date request received
18 February 2026
Date of decision
17 March 2026