How Safe are Our Children? 2016

Date: 29th June 2016
Category: Equal protection from violence

This NSPCC report compiles and analyses the most robust and up-to-date child protection data that exists across the 4 nations in the UK for 2016.

The report sets out 20 different indicators. Each indicator looks at the question of 'how safe are our children?' from a different perspective. They also include historic data, to help track progress over time.

Key findings:

• All 4 countries in the UK have seen the number of recorded sexual offences against children increase over the last year;
• England and Wales have seen an increase in the number of recorded cruelty and neglect offences in the last year;
• Reports of online abuse have increased, including: a rise in the number of ChildLine counselling sessions about sexting and cyberbullying; an increase in the number of URLs containing child abuse images being identified and removed from the internet; an increase in the number of recorded obscene publication offences.
• Read more here.
• Download the report here.