Assessing the impact of specialist home visiting upon maltreatment in England: a feasibility study of data linkage from a public health trial to routine health and social care data

Table 5 Data received from National Pupil Database (NPD)

NPD dataset name	Years provided	Records in dataset (n)	Participants in dataset (n)	Mothers in dataset (n)	Children in dataset (n)
Pupil Level and School Census (PLASC)	2012/2013; 2013/2014	760	760	4	756^a
Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) Census	2013/2014	2	2	2	0
Alternative Provision	2012/2013; 2013/2014	1	1	0	1
Early Years Census (EYC)	2012/2013; 2013/2014	581	565	0	565^a
Child Looked After (CLA)	2008/2009–2013/2014	23	23	10	13
Child in Need	2008/2009–2013/2014	331^b	169^b	98^b	71

^a54% of 1412 children were identified in PLASC; 40% in EYC. Summer 2014 was the last school census dataset requested for the pilot thus not all children would have been expected to be in school (i.e. only by March 2014, would all children have turned 3 years of age)
^b1 record received does not contain any data and therefore following further data cleaning may be removed

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