National Analysis Police Recorded CSA & Exploitation (CSAE) Crimes Report
It always takes time for police/others to analyse data and produce their conclusions. This report relates to data collected by them during the period Jan-Dec 2022. Their report and conclusions have only been recently released and they contain topics of interest to us.
Remembering also that the data only reports to that which is known by the police and not the vast amount that is known to our sector, but not the police. Also the even larger number that are still not known as they have never been disclosed. The majority of crimes are NOT reported to the police and therefore the data is understated. Plus there is always going to be a distortion of data when ages are aggregated. For example, they say that crimes committed by 10-17 year olds – but within that are the 14-17 year olds who have had sex with girlfriend/boyfriend – we believe it would be more meaningful if the ages were split out to age 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17.
Media Release from National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) | January 2024
A Short Animation by NSPCC - Providing a Brief Overview of the Scale & Nature of the Report