Corrections

25 September 2020

A correction has been made in Table 20 to the percentages of who adults who experienced sexual abuse before the age of 16 years, told about the abuse or who found out. This was due to incorrect data in the files.

We apologise for an inconvenience.

02 March 2021

A correction has been made to the age at which any sexual abuse experienced before the age of 16 stopped.

This was due to incorrect data in the files. Table 15 has now been corrected.

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  • Release date:
    14 January 2020
  • Next release:
    To be announced

About this Dataset

Data on child sexual abuse in England and Wales, bringing together a range of different data sources from across government and the voluntary sector.

Edition in this dataset

Year ending March 2019 edition of this dataset

Previous versions of this data are available.

Contact details for this dataset

Meghan Elkin
crimestatistics@ons.gov.uk
+44 (0) 20 7592 8695

Publications that use this data