Children’s Social Work Statistics: Child Protection 2023-24
Child Protection Statistics for Scotland for 2023-24 that cover data on children subject to child protection processes.
Please note that the Publication Tables and Additional Tables Excel documents were revised on 8 April 2025. See Contents pages for detail of tables subject to revision.
Area deprivation
On 31 July 2024, around half (48%) of the children registered during the year were registered from the 20% most deprived areas in Scotland. The second largest proportion of registrations were made for children in the 20-40% most deprived areas (25%), with this pattern continuing with decreasing area deprivation.
Table 1.6 Number of children registered to the Child Protection Register from area deprivation quintiles by Local Authority, 31 July 2023-2024 [Note 1]
|
Local Authority |
Number of children registered from Quintile 0-20% (most deprived areas nationally) |
Number of children from Quintile 20-40% |
Number of children from Quintile 40-60% |
Number of children from Quintile 60-80% |
Number of children registered from Quintile 80-100% (least deprived areas nationally) |
Number of children registered without records of their deprivation quintile |
|
Aberdeen City |
30 |
45 |
12 |
6 |
3 |
0 |
|
Aberdeenshire [Note 1] |
* |
* |
* |
* |
* |
* |
|
Angus |
6 |
12 |
5 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
|
Argyll and Bute |
7 |
7 |
16 |
7 |
2 |
0 |
|
City of Edinburgh |
55 |
32 |
17 |
26 |
6 |
4 |
|
Clackmannanshire |
30 |
3 |
4 |
8 |
1 |
0 |
|
Dumfries and Galloway |
25 |
32 |
26 |
2 |
15 |
2 |
|
Dundee City |
117 |
30 |
11 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
|
East Ayrshire |
77 |
24 |
7 |
7 |
1 |
0 |
|
East Dunbartonshire |
15 |
7 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
|
East Lothian |
1 |
22 |
9 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
|
East Renfrewshire |
5 |
8 |
1 |
6 |
4 |
0 |
|
Falkirk |
29 |
38 |
13 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Fife |
97 |
51 |
23 |
11 |
7 |
0 |
|
Glasgow City |
200 |
43 |
11 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
|
Highland |
8 |
4 |
14 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Inverclyde |
59 |
12 |
14 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Midlothian |
24 |
36 |
13 |
16 |
5 |
2 |
|
Moray |
3 |
29 |
35 |
37 |
0 |
0 |
|
Na h-Eileanan Siar |
0 |
7 |
25 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
North Ayrshire |
112 |
23 |
6 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
|
North Lanarkshire |
168 |
76 |
15 |
17 |
3 |
10 |
|
Orkney Islands |
0 |
7 |
0 |
12 |
6 |
0 |
|
Perth and Kinross |
17 |
30 |
21 |
15 |
10 |
0 |
|
Renfrewshire |
56 |
29 |
7 |
0 |
3 |
4 |
|
Scottish Borders |
16 |
20 |
16 |
14 |
0 |
4 |
|
Shetland Islands |
0 |
1 |
10 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
|
South Ayrshire |
15 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
South Lanarkshire |
102 |
37 |
27 |
7 |
3 |
0 |
|
Stirling |
14 |
6 |
10 |
12 |
12 |
2 |
|
West Dunbartonshire |
64 |
21 |
5 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
|
West Lothian |
23 |
23 |
2 |
15 |
1 |
5 |
|
Scotland |
1,375 |
718 |
377 |
251 |
94 |
37 |
[Note 1] Postcode data was not provided by Aberdeenshire, and so area deprivation analysis cannot be displayed in the table.