ONS · offence category: 4.7 Causing or allowing death or serious physical harm of child or vulnerable person
Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 4.7 Causing or allowing death or serious physical harm of child or vulnerable person
4 periods to Year ending March 2026
329offences
Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 4.7 Causing or allowing death or serious physical harm of child or vulnerable person totalled 329 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 46.9% (105) on the 4 periods before.
ONS dataset
Table A5a
Causing or allowing death or serious physical harm of child or vulnerable person [note 16]
column “Apr 2025 to
Mar 2026”
78 per period
published 23 July 2026
Year ending March 2006 to Year ending March 2026
Published valueProvisional or revisedLatestShaded bands: governments (see labels)Hover or use arrow keys to read a value
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.