Cruelty to Children Offences
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/25/007690/F
Version Date: 17/03/2025
The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.
Data Processing:
Crimes recorded on crime information system – NICHE
Cancelled crimes excluded, Non notifiable crimes excluded
Qliksense Report: Occurrence - People Links (last 2 years)
Filtered by date: April 1st 2023 to March 31st 2024
HO Description: Cruelty to Children/Young Persons
Secondary search
Person/Organisation: Person
Victim: Yes
Data Limitations:
Data has been supplied in relation to the crime types requested. The principal crime rule dictates the crime type recorded. This is determined by the Home Office Counting Rules.
Crime and victim figures may vary - this is because there may be more than one victim for an offence, or a victim may not have supported action and not given details.
- The total number of recorded cruelty to children/young person offences (Home Office offence code: 11A) for the periods 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.
Between April 1st 2023 and March 31st 2024, there were 421 crimes recorded of Cruelty to Children/Young Persons.
Please note, there were several offences with no victim links and a number of offences where the victim attached was over 17. Upon reviewing these crimes, many were historic offences - adults reporting crimes from when they were children.
2. 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).
Below is a suggested table:
Total number of offences XX
Total number of victims XX
Age of victims
0 XX
1 XX
2 XX
3 XX
4 XX
5 XX
6 XX
7 XX
8 XX
9 XX
10 XX
11 XX
12 XX
13 XX
14 XX
15 XX
16 XX
17 XX
|
Victim Age |
Total |
|
0 |
26 |
|
1 |
25 |
|
2 |
26 |
|
3 |
22 |
|
4 |
23 |
|
5 |
23 |
|
6 |
24 |
|
7 |
27 |
|
8 |
25 |
|
9 |
28 |
|
10 |
27 |
|
11 |
37 |
|
12 |
27 |
|
13 |
22 |
|
14 |
20 |
|
15 |
16 |
|
16 |
4 |
|
17 |
0 |