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Child Protection Investigations (By Year and Type of Abuse)

Data from Jan 2010 to Dec 2021Updated 4 months ago

MSF (Ministry of Social and Family Development)

MSF's Child Protective Service (CPS) provides statutory intervention and supportive services to address the needs of children and young persons who have been seriously harmed or are at high risk of serious harm.

The count refers to the number of child abuse investigations on an annual basis.

Data explorer

ChildProtectionInvestigationsByYearandTypeofAbuse.csv (36 rows, 631 B)

Year
Datetime (Year) "YYYY"
Type of abuse
Text (General)
Count
Numeric (General)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2010Physical188
2010Sexual58
2010Neglect144
2011Physical138
2011Sexual72
2011Neglect205
2012Physical177
2012Sexual70
2012Neglect136
2013Physical148

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearDatetime (Year) "YYYY"--
Type of abusetype_of_abuseText (General)--
CountcountNumeric (General)Cases-

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
datasetId = "d_9ddfc955105732978f0debb599641fa1"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + datasetId 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Created on

11 Jan 2023

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MSF (Ministry of Social and Family Development)

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