Table 3.

Child admissions (<19 years) to hospital and proportion notified to children's social care (CSC) or coded for adversity in 12 months (2010/11)

	Admissions with safeguarding indices (% notified to CSC)			Percentage of admissions
Type of admission	Notified to CSC	Safeguarding needs confirmed by record review	ICD10 codes reflecting safeguarding needs	Total n‡	Notified to CSC	Safeguarding needs confirmed by record review	ICD10 codes reflecting safeguarding needs
Child – total	46	93 (50%)	138 (33%)	8829	0.5%	1.1%	1.6%
Injury	27†	48 (56%)	48 (56%)	830	3.3%	5.8%	5.8%
Non-injury	19†	45 (42%)	90 (21%)	7999	0.2%	0.6%	1.1%

^†Forty-six child admissions (41 in table 2 and 5 notifications initiated in the emergency department).

^‡From Hospital Episode Statistics for the corresponding 6 months in 2010 and 6 months in 2011.

ICD10, International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision.