Sexual offences and under 18's
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/23/0813
Version Date: 05/07/2023
The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.
The data is based on the main crime group of ‘sexual offences’ and then the crimsec description so it can be broken down by offence type.
We have included details of offences that have a location subtype of school or college, or the common name of the address includes the keyword ‘school’, ‘academy’ or ‘college’.
1. The number of reports received of an alleged sexual assault committed by a person under-18 on a victim aged under 18. I would like this information broken down by year, covering 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019.
|
Year |
All Sexual Offences where both suspect and victim are aged under 18* |
|
2019 |
189 |
|
2020 |
182 |
|
2021 |
247 |
|
2022 |
337 |
*Includes Sexual assault, rape, exposure and voyeurism, etc.
2. The number of reports covered in 1) that included an allegation of rape. I would like this information broken down by year, covering 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019.
|
Year |
All Rape Offences where both suspect and victim are aged under 18 |
|
2019 |
65 |
|
2020 |
49 |
|
2021 |
60 |
|
2022 |
90 |
3. The number of reports covered in 1) in which the alleged perpetrator was aged 10 or under. I would like this information broken down by year, covering 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019.
|
Year |
All Sexual Offences where suspect is aged under 10 and victim aged under 18 |
|
2019 |
10 |
|
2020 |
7 |
|
2021 |
15 |
|
2022 |
16 |
4. The number of reports covered in 1) that took place on school premises. I would like this information broken down by year, covering 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019.
|
Year |
All Sexual Offences where both suspect and victim are aged under 18 and venue is recorded as school/college |
|
2019 |
9 |
|
2020 |
11 |
|
2021 |
20 |
|
2022 |
31 |
5. The number of reports covered in 1) in which no further action was taken. I would like this information broken down by year, covering 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019.
|
Outcomes for offences from Q1 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
|
Charged |
5 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
|
Summonsed/postal requisition |
3 |
5 |
5 |
0 |
|
Police - formal action not in public interest |
7 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|
Named suspect below age of criminal responsibility |
3 |
6 |
10 |
6 |
|
Named suspect too ill to prosecute |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Named suspect but victim/key witness deceased or too ill |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Victim declines/unable to support action to identify offender |
7 |
3 |
8 |
8 |
|
CPS - named suspect, victim supports but evidential difficulties |
1 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
|
Police - named suspect, victim supports but evidential difficulties |
46 |
42 |
35 |
30 |
|
Victim declines/withdraws support - named suspect identified |
52 |
71 |
101 |
168 |
|
Investigation complete. No suspect identified |
4 |
7 |
0 |
11 |
|
Alternate offence summonsed/postal requisition |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Youth caution |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Youth conditional caution |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
Other body/agency has investigation primacy |
41 |
24 |
58 |
66 |
|
Alternate offence youth caution |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Police - named suspect, investigation not in the public interest |
17 |
9 |
18 |
19 |
|
Diversionary, educational or intervention activity, not in public interest to take further action |
0 |
0 |
0 |
5 |
|
Offender has died |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Youth restorative disposal |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
CPS - prosecution not in public interest |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Cancelled/transferred |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
|
Under investigation / No outcome recorded |
0 |
1 |
3 |
16 |
|
Total |
189 |
182 |
247 |
337 |