FOI reference: FOI-2026-3654
You asked
Can I have the statistics for white men who commit sexual abuse towards children in the UK?
We said
Thank you for your request.
Unfortunately, we do not hold the exact information you have requested.
We publish crime statistics from two main sources: the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and Home Office police recorded crime (PRC). These sources focus on crime as it is experienced by victims.
We do publish breakdowns of victims' experiences of sexual abuse before the age of 18 years by the sex of the perpetrator in Table 19 of our abuse during childhood, year ending March 2024 appendix tables. However, these are not broken down by ethnicity of the offender. There are also some breakdowns of the victims' relationship to the perpetrator in Tables 16, 17 and 18 of the same dataset that can be attributed to a single sex (for example, father, brother or stepbrother), in case this is helpful. Other categories (for example, neighbour, friend of a friend) will include both males and females together.
Our statistics relate to England and Wales only. Scotland and Northern Ireland publish their statistics separately.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) are primarily responsible for data on offenders. The quarterly criminal justice statistics contain an outcomes by offence data tool, which allows you to filter by offence type and individual characteristics, including sex and ethnicity. If you have any questions, the MoJ can be contacted at CJS_Statistics@justice.gov.uk.
If you have any queries in the future, please contact crimestatistics@ons.gov.uk and we will endeavour to help.