Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children have been (a) put on a child protection plan and (b) put back on a child protection plan within two years of coming off such a plan in each of the last five years.

The number of children who have been placed on a child protection plan in each of the last five years is available in table A2 of the annual Children In Need statistical publication:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/characteristics-of-children-in-need-2015-to-2016

We do not hold information in the requested format on the number of the children who came back onto a child protection plan within 2 years of coming off one.