UK Child Sex Abuse

Child sexual abuse (CSE) in the United Kingdom (UK) includes the proliferation of indecent images, online exploitation, transnational abuse, and contact abuse. Efforts to prevent child sexual abuse include providing information to children and parents, and disrupting abusive situations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_in_the_United_Kingdom

Several government reviews have reported failures by British institutions in preventing, identifying and prosecuting the widespread cases of group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation that mostly occurred between the 1990s and 2010s.[1] Allegations of governmental and institutional failures to respond to the problem or to downplay or cover up the issue have been described as a grooming gangs scandal.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooming_gangs_scandal

• Media coverage and political discourse around these crimes has especially focused on the ethnic and religious background of perpetrators in high-profile cases, most of whom were Muslim men of Pakistani descent, and whether this prevented proper investigation.[3][4][5] Data in Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire shows that, in the 2020s, men of an Asian ethnic background are disproportionately represented among perpetrators in those areas.

Abbreviations

• CSE - Child Sexual Exploitation
• CSAE - Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
• CSAD - Child Sexual Abuse Dataset
• CPAI - Child Protection and Abuse Investigation (and the count of actual crimes identified from those investigations?)
• COCAD - Complex and Organised Child Abuse Dataset (aka groups)
• IIOC - Indecent Images of Children (aka kiddie porn)

Hydrant Programme Group Based Offending Publication 2025 - 12 months of data from 2024 - pdf - just going to look at 2024 full-year stats (for all of UK)

• CPAI: 130.3k - includes "images" crimes
• "contact" subset of CPAI (aka excludes images): 79.1k
• COCAD: group-based subset of "contact": 4.4k (4,450) (5.6% of contact crimes) -
• COCAD offense types
  • rape of child: 1870 (42%)
  • sexual assault on child: 1276 (29%)
  • sexual activity involving a child: 1120 (25%)
  • other: 184 (4%)
• COCAD categories:
  • Familial: 1,419 = 32% of COCAD
  • Child-on-child: 1088 (24%) (statutory rape where both people are under 18)
  • CSE: 761 (17%) - this is the Grooming Gangs category
  • Institutional: 415 (9%)
  • Ritualistic: 7 (0.2%)
  • Other: 502 (11%)
  • Unknown: 258 (6%)