Rape and sexual offences in schools

Freedom of Information Act request number: 22/3153

Version date: 08/02/2022

The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information:

Data Source                                         

Crimes recorded on crime information system - UNIFI

Data Processing:                                           

Crimes recorded on crime information system - UNIFI                                     

'No crimes'excluded                                                  

Qlikview Report: Crime Lists                                                 

Filtered by requested dates                                                  

Further filters applied: Offence group: Rape, Other Sexual Offences

Venue_Combined: :SCHOOL, EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT: SCHOOL                                               

Qlikview People Report 5FY                                                 

Filtered by requested dates                                                  

Further filters applied: Offence group: Rape, Other Sexual Offences                          

Person Only/ Crime Only                                           

Matched the Venue from Crime Lists Report into the People data                                            

Data Caveats/Limitations:                                                  

No crimes/Cancelled Crimes excluded                                            

Data contains duplicate crime references where there is more than 1 victim or suspect attached to a crime, these are highlighted in red.

For your force area, please could you provide a breakdown of all rape and sexual offences that were recorded to have taken place in the location of a school, for the last three school years (September 2020 to July 2021, September 2019 to July 2020 and September 2018 to July 2019) Please can you breakdown the statistics by: 

(a) Year

(b) Type of crime - rape or other sexual offence 

(c) How many victims were identified for each offence (if more than 1) 

There is one victim recorded for each offence except one offence where there were two victims and one offence where there were eleven victims

(d) Whether the suspect(s) was an adult or a child (if known) 

The age of the suspect/offender is not always known and therefore the totals above will not match those of part (a)

(e) Whether the victim(s) was an adult or a child 

The age of the victim is not always known and therefore the totals above will not match those of part (a)

Please Note: there can also be more than one victim per offence

The data shows offences recorded with a venue type of school. Please be aware that an offence could have occurred when the school was closed but on school property.

This could include evenings, weekends and school holidays. Therefore an offence may have occurred within the boundary of the school but not in school opening hours.

Some schools allow the public use/hire of their premises for extracurricular activities and therefore an offence may have occurred within this time but not necessarily within traditional school learning hours.

Searches were done with a crime location of 'school'. A school may include a 6th form level of education and could therefore be captured in the data as could disability/special needs/boarding schools