Audience Research

Taken from :

http://www.nspcc.org.uk/Inform/research/statistics/prevalence_and_incidence_of_child_abuse_and_neglect_wda48740.html

•  Three-quarters (72%) of sexually abused children did not tell anyone about the abuse at the time. 27% told someone later. Around a third (31%) still had not told anyone about their experience(s) by early adulthood.
• In 2009/10, police in England and Wales recorded more than 23,000 sex offences against children.
• In 2010/11, ChildLine counsellors dealt with nearly 670,000 contacts from children about various problems including, bullying, sex abuse, violence and mental health issues.
• On average, every week in England and Wales at least one child is killed at the hands of another person.
• Children under one are the age group most at-risk of being killed at the hands of another person.
  
• In 2010/11, over 16,000 allegations of children suffering abuse were passed from the NSPCC Helpline to police or social services.
  
  
  Taken from :
  http://www.nspcc.org.uk/news-and-views/media-centre/key-information-for-journalists/facts-and-figures/Facts-and-figures_wda73664.html
  
  
  

  March 2011

  • Approximately 46,700 children in the UK are known to be at risk of abuse right now.
  • One in four young adults (25.3%) were severely maltreated during childhood.

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  We do not know exactly how many children in the UK have been abused.
  
  
  The UK does not publish statistics on the number of substantiated child abuse cases recorded every year (this would be the incidence of child abuse).
  

  Official statistics

  The number of children on child protection registers or the subject of child protection plans tell us how many children are known to be at risk of abuse right now.
  
  
  This is not the same as knowing how many children have been abused.
  
  
  Research indicates that abuse and neglect are both under-reported and under-recorded.
  
  

  • Approximately 46,700 children in the UK are known to be at risk of abuse right now¹.
  • Latest available figures show that there were 46,705 children on child protection registers or the subject of child protection plans in the UK as at 31 March 2010:
    
    
    England: 39,100
    Northern Ireland: 2,357
    Scotland: 2,518
    Wales: 2,730