LADO referrals, concerns and allegations relating to nursery settings

Please provide the following information for the last five financial years (2020-2025), broken down by year:

1. The number of LADO referrals, concerns and allegations relating to nursery settings

2. Of these, how many allegations were recorded as substantiated

3. How many of the referrals/allegations resulted in any action recorded by the LADO (e.g., internal disciplinary action, referral to Ofsted or DBS, or police involvement).

1-2. See table below

20 of the above had police involvement either initiated or brought into the process.

5 were referred to DBS by those agencies involved

40 referred to LADO by Ofsted

3. To find and extract this information from this cases would take longer than the time allowed under section 12 (1) of the FOI Act 2000