FOI reference: FOI-2025-2754
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I would like to make an FOI request on the below.
How many children under the age of 5 have experienced sexual abuse in a nursery care setting by an employee in England & Wales between 2019 - 2024
How many children under the age of 5 have experienced physical abuse in a nursery care setting by an employee in England & Wales between 2019 - 2014
How many Babies aged 3 months to 24 months have experienced sexual abuse in a nursery care setting by an employee in England & Wales between 2019 - 2024.
How many babies aged 3 months to 24 months have experienced physical abuse in a nursery care setting by an employee in England & Wales between 2019 - 2024.
How many Babies & Children aged 3 months to 5 years have been sexually abused in a nursery care setting by an employee in England & Wales between 2000 - 2024.
How many babies & children aged 3 months to 5 years have been physically abused in a nursery care setting by an employee in England & Wales between 2000 - 2024.
How many employees that have worked in a nursery caring for babies from 3 months old to 5 years old in England & Wales has been arrested for sexually abusing a baby/child in their care between 2000 - 2024.
How many employees that have worked in a nursey caring for babies from 3 months old to 5 years old in England & Wales has been arrested for possession of indecent sexual images of a child in their care between 2000 - 2024.
How many employees that have worked in a nursey caring for babies from 3 months old to 5 years old in England & Wales has been arrested for possession of indecent sexual images of a child not in their care between 2000 - 2024.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Unfortunately, we do not hold data on child abuse within a nursery setting.
We primarily produce statistics from two main sources:
- Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) – a household victimisation survey that asks respondents about their experiences of crime, regardless of whether the incident was reported to the police;
- Police recorded crime (from the Home Office) – offences that are reported to and/or recorded by police forces in England and Wales.
Our Crime in England and Wales appendix tables (Table A5a and A5b) present the latest police recorded crime data by offence. The latest dataset presents data for the year ending March 2003 to year ending September 2024, with rows 67 to 104 showing data on sexual offences, including those involving children.
Our Child abuse in England and Wales year ending March 2020 publication presents our latest data on child abuse. It brings together data on different types of child abuse, including physical and sexual abuse.
Our Child sexual abuse in England and Wales: year ending March 2019 publication (and its accompanying dataset) brings together data on child sexual abuse. Section 12 of the article, and tables 12a, 12b and 13 present data on perpetrators of sexual abuse experienced before the age of 16. You may also find Table 15 helpful which presents the age at which sexual abuse was first experienced.
Our Child physical abuse in England and Wales year ending March 2019 and its accompanying dataset present data on physical abuse experienced by children.
Statistics at MOJ - Ministry of Justice - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
If you have any other crime-related queries in the future for England and Wales, you can email crimestatistics@ons.gov.uk and we will endeavour to help.