2022/25096 - Cruelty to Children Offences
REQUEST
Please could you provide:
- The total number of recorded cruelty to children/young person offences (Home Office offence code: 11A) for the periods 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020, 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021, and 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022.
- The total number of victims broken down by age (by individual year of age where possible otherwise please provide it grouped into 0-5, 6-10, 11-15 and 16-17).
RESPONSE
Please see the table below:
|
|
Financial Year 2019 - 2020 |
Financial Year 2020 - 2021 |
Financial Year 2021 – 2022 |
|
Total number of offences |
171 |
131 |
105 |
|
Total number of victims |
165 |
130 |
103 |
|
Age of victim’s breakdown: |
|
|
|
|
0 |
13 |
9 |
8 |
|
1 |
10 |
10 |
8 |
|
2 |
13 |
6 |
9 |
|
3 |
19 |
15 |
11 |
|
4 |
6 |
10 |
8 |
|
5 |
11 |
8 |
6 |
|
6 |
11 |
13 |
3 |
|
7 |
14 |
12 |
6 |
|
8 |
9 |
9 |
4 |
|
9 |
6 |
5 |
6 |
|
10 |
5 |
5 |
4 |
|
11 |
8 |
2 |
6 |
|
12 |
6 |
11 |
4 |
|
13 |
10 |
2 |
7 |
|
14 |
9 |
6 |
5 |
|
15 |
9 |
3 |
1 |
|
16 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
17 |
1 |
1 |
0 |