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ONS · offence category: 11A Cruelty to children/young persons

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 11A Cruelty to children/young persons

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

147,965offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 11A Cruelty to children/young persons totalled 147,965 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 53.5% (51,554) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Cruelty to children/young persons [note 20,21]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 38586 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2013 to Year ending March 2026

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2013 to Year ending March 2026CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour010k20k30k201520202025Year ending March 2013: 6,370 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 8,000 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 9,189 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 12,178 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 14,232 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 16,151 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 19,326 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 22,189 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 24,932 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 29,964 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 33,097 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 36,452 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 39,830 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 38,586 offences · published 23 July 2026
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What this measures

The number of offences recorded by the police in England and Wales for every offence and offence group in the ONS appendix table, for each year ending March since 2003. Coded rows are individual Home Office offence codes; rows marked (subtotal) are the groups the ONS prints without a code.

Offences whose code was retired or introduced part way through the series (shown as unavailable for those years), or fraud reported to Action Fraud and Report Fraud for the latest year.

Source

Dataset
Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables
Release
Year ending March 2026, published 23 July 2026 · sha256 9e4a930ec090b4b4…
All values
Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) by offence category