In December 2020 HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS), the College of Policing (CoP) and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) published a report in response to the super-complaint submitted by Liberty and Southall Black Sisters about the practice of the police sharing of victims’ information with the Home Office.

The report made recommendations for the police, the Home Office, the National Police Chiefs’ Council, and police and crime commissioners (or equivalents) to ensure victims of crime are always treated as victims first and foremost, regardless of their immigration status. The report also included actions for HMICFRS and the College of Policing regarding their own work. The details of these recommendations and actions are listed on pages 15 – 20 of https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/945314/safe-to-share-liberty-southall-black-sisters-super-complaint-policing-immigration-status.pdf" class="govuk-link">Safe to Share?

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The report included two actions for the College of Policing, as well as a role supporting the implementation of one of the recommendations to other bodies.

Recommendation 1.

The College was instructed to “immediately develop guidance”  to support those working in policing to fulfil ‘Recommendation 1’ – i.e. that “pending the outcome of recommendation 2, where officers only have concerns or doubts about a victim’s immigration status, we recommend that they immediately stop sharing information on domestic abuse victims with Immigration Enforcement.”

The guidance has been produced and has been published as an update to existing ‘Authorised Professional Practice’ (APP) for policing. APP is authorised by the College of Policing as the official source of professional practice on policing. Police officers and staff are expected to have regard to APP in discharging their responsibilities.

The revised guidance is in the ‘risk factors and vulnerabilities connected with domestic abuse’ section of the ‘Major Investigation and Public Protection’ APP. It is available to view online https://www.app.college.police.uk/app-content/major-investigation-and-public-protection/domestic-abuse/risk-and-vulnerability/#victims-with-insecure-or-uncertain-immigration-status" class="govuk-link">Risk and vulnerability (college.police.uk)

Action 1.

The action was for the College to “work with interested parties to consider how domestic abuse risk assessment tools used by the police and partner organisations can include immigration status as a risk factor.”

The College has developed a revised risk assessment tool for domestic abuse, ‘DARA’, which focuses on uncovering evidence of coercive and controlling behaviour. There is evidence that the tool is more effective at eliciting disclosures of coercive and controlling behaviour. The potential use of immigration status as a way to manipulate and control would be addressed through use of the tool.

Action 2.

The action was for the College, “when updating knowledge and training products, ensure that the messaging across all relevant guidance is consistent about the need for policing to balance the needs for safeguarding a victim or witness against the national interest in investigating crime.”

This is a continuing piece of work. Every revision of College of Policing training or guidance includes consideration of the balance between the rights of all involved and the necessity to achieve the best outcomes for all.

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Action 3.

The action for HMICFRS was ‘ Subject to available funding from the Home Office, HMICFRS will consider whether future inspection activity and/or monitoring could review how the issues raised by this super-complaint are being addressed by forces, once they have had an opportunity to make changes in the light of this investigation’.

Subject to available funding from the Home Office, HMICFRS will review whether inspection activity and/or monitoring should be undertaken (in 2023-24) to see how issues raised in this super-complaint are being addressed by forces.

Home Office update

There are two responses from The Home Office. These responses are available as PDFs at the start of this page.

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In June 2022 HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS), the College of Policing and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) published a report about the super-complaint submitted by the Centre for Women’s Justice which addressed the police response to domestic abuse cases in which the suspect was a police officer or a member of police staff.

The report made recommendations to chief constables, police and crime commissioners (PCCs), the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the Home Office (HO). The report also included actions for the IOPC and the College of Policing. The details of these recommendations and actions are listed in the final section of the super complaint investigation report.

Information on whether organisations have accepted the recommendations made to them is provided in the letters from the ‘National Police Chiefs’ Council’ (NPCC), the MoJ, the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) and the HO. Information on the actions for the College of Policing and the IOPC is provided below.

Recommendation 1 asked chief constables to write within six months to explain how their force has or will improve the response to PPDA allegations. Information on the response to this recommendation will be published early in 2023.

https://www.policeconduct.gov.uk/" class="govuk-link">IOPC

Action 1

This action was for the IOPC to carry out a targeted programme of oversight work in relation to police handling of PPDA.

Response

In addition to its wider work on the police response to violence against women and girls, the IOPC has developed a targeted programme that will include oversight work in relation to the police handling of PPDA. Work is already planned to carry out proactive reviews of local handling of PPDA allegations. Where appropriate, the IOPC will use its findings to develop additional guidance for the police service. The IOPC will also identify and share learning to improve policing practice in this area.

Action 3

This action was for the IOPC to consider how it could report data on police complaints involving an allegation of PPDA as part of its annual statistical release.

Response

The IOPC will review its annual data collection to determine the feasibility of producing statistics on complaints involving an allegation of PPDA and will work with police forces to introduce any changes.

https://www.college.police.uk/" class="govuk-link">College of Policing

Action 2

This action was for the College of Policing to review and update relevant ‘authorised professional practice’, guidance, training and curricula, to incorporate learning and findings from the super-complaint investigation.

Response

College of Policing domestic abuse APP will be updated to draw on findings and learning from the super-complaint investigation.

The College updated https://assets.college.police.uk/s3fs-public/2022-08/Guidance-on-outcomes-in-police-misconduct-proceedings.pdf" class="govuk-link">misconduct outcomes guidance has taken account of the super-complaint investigation findings. In particular, it stresses the seriousness of cases involving violence against women and girls and makes clear that ‘whether on-duty or off-duty’ this will ‘always harm public confidence in policing’. Other listed ‘aggravating factors’ (indicating a higher level of culpability and harm) include abuse of trust, position, powers or authority; concealing wrongdoing in question and/or attempting to blame others; and serious physical or psychological impact on the victim.

The College current review of vetting guidance and the Code of Ethics for policing will take account of findings from the super-complaint investigation. The revised versions are due to be published in 2023.

Learning from the super-complaint investigation and the final report has been included in the College of Policing ‘Public Protection and Safeguarding Leaders’ programme. The ‘Professionalising Investigation Programme’ Level 1 (embedded in the policing degree for new officers joining the service) will be updated to include content on domestic abuse cases involving police suspects. A ‘Domestic Abuse Matters’ course is currently being developed specifically for investigators and it will include learning from the super-complaint inv

These historic data tables contain figures up to September 2024 for:

1. Police recorded crime
2. Crime outcomes
3. Transferred/cancelled records (formerly ‘no-crimes’)
4. Knife crime
5. Firearms
6. Hate crime
7. Fraud crime
8. Rape incidents crime

There are counting rules for recorded crime to help to ensure that crimes are recorded consistently and accurately.

These tables are designed to have many uses. The Home Office would like to hear from any users who have developed applications for these data tables and any suggestions for future releases. Please contact the Crime Analysis team at crimeandpolicestats@homeoffice.gov.uk.

This is an Official Statistics bulletin produced by statisticians in the Ministry of Justice, Home Office and the Office for National Statistics. It brings together, for the first time, a range of official statistics from across the crime and criminal justice system, providing an overview of sexual offending in England and Wales. The report is structured to highlight: the victim experience; the police role in recording and detecting the crimes; how the various criminal justice agencies deal with an offender once identified; and the criminal histories of sex offenders.

Providing such an overview presents a number of challenges, not least that the available information comes from different sources that do not necessarily cover the same period, the same people (victims or offenders) or the same offences. This is explained further in the report.

Victimisation through to police recording of crimes

Based on aggregated data from the ‘Crime Survey for England and Wales’ in 2009/10, 2010/11 and 2011/12, on average, 2.5 per cent of females and 0.4 per cent of males said that they had been a victim of a sexual offence (including attempts) in the previous 12 months. This represents around 473,000 adults being victims of sexual offences (around 404,000 females and 72,000 males) on average per year. These experiences span the full spectrum of sexual offences, ranging from the most serious offences of rape and sexual assault, to other sexual offences like indecent exposure and unwanted touching. The vast majority of incidents reported by respondents to the survey fell into the other sexual offences category.

It is estimated that 0.5 per cent of females report being a victim of the most serious offences of rape or sexual assault by penetration in the previous 12 months, equivalent to around 85,000 victims on average per year. Among males, less than 0.1 per cent (around 12,000) report being a victim of the same types of offences in the previous 12 months.

Around one in twenty females (aged 16 to 59) reported being a victim of a most serious sexual offence since the age of 16. Extending this to include other sexual offences such as sexual threats, unwanted touching or indecent exposure, this increased to one in five females reporting being a victim since the age of 16.

Around 90 per cent of victims of the most serious sexual offences in the previous year knew the perpetrator, compared with less than half for other sexual offences.

Females who had reported being victims of the most serious sexual offences in the last year were asked, regarding the most recent incident, whether or not they had reported the incident to the police. Only 15 per cent of victims of such offences said that they had done so. Frequently cited reasons for not reporting the crime were that it was ‘embarrassing’, they ‘didn’t think the police could do much to help’, that the incident was ‘too trivial or not worth reporting’, or that they saw it as a ‘private/family matter and not police business’

In 2011/12, the police recorded a total of 53,700 sexual offences across England and Wales. The most serious sexual offences of ‘rape’ (16,000 offences) and ‘sexual assault’ (22,100 offences) accounted for 71 per cent of sexual offences recorded by the police. This differs markedly from victims responding to the CSEW in 2011/12, the majority of whom were reporting being victims of other sexual offences outside the most serious category.

This reflects the fact that victims are more likely to report the most serious sexual offences to the police and, as such, the police and broader criminal justice system (CJS) tend to deal largely with the most serious end of the spectrum of sexual offending. The majority of the other sexual crimes recorded by the police related to ‘exposure or voyeurism’ (7,000) and ‘sexual activity with minors’ (5,800).

Trends in recorded crime statistics can be influenced by whether victims feel able to and decide to report such offences to the police, and by changes in police recording practices. For example, while there was a 17 per cent decrease in recorded sexual offences between 2005/06 and 2008/09, there was a seven per cent increase between 2008/09 and 2010/11. The latter increase may in part be due to greater encouragement by the police to victims to come forward and improvements in police recording, rather than an increase in the level of victimisation.

After the initial recording of a crime, the police may later decide that no crime took place as more details about the case emerge. In 2011/12, there were 4,155 offences initially recorded as sexual offences that the police later decided were not crimes. There are strict guidelines that set out circumstances under which a crime report may be ‘no crimed’. The ‘no-crime’ rate for sexual offences (7.2 per cent) compare

Legal aid statistics bulletin presents statistics on the legal aid scheme administered by the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) for England and Wales. This edition comprises the first release of statistics for the three month period from October to December 2023 and also provides the latest statement of figures for all earlier periods. This edition also includes figures on Criminal Legal Aid Reform accelerated measures and provider contracts and statistics on criminal legal aid data share. These statistics are derived from data held by LAA, produced and published by Legal Aid Statistics team of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ).

Data files the source for the key statistics on activity in the legal aid system for England and Wales in .csv (Comma delimited) format are published on Legal aid statistics: October to December 2023 data files.

Link to Data visualisation tools, a web-based tools allowing the user to view and analyse charts and tables based on the published statistics.

Statistician’s comment

This publication shows that expenditure across civil legal aid has increased year on year and has also increased more over the recent quarters. Criminal legal aid expenditure in the most recent quarter is compared to a period covering the impact of industrial action last year in the Crown Court, which in turn reduced workload completed and the associated expenditure, which means that some of the large increases are not indicative of underlying trends in the system.

In the last few quarters, we have seen increases in police station claims and a corresponding increase in representation orders at the magistrates’ court. Expenditure in the police station increased in the quarter again, as expected, due to higher fees for police station advice that were introduced at the end of 2022. Crown Court workload completions are showing a return to more serious types of claim with trials increasing showing impacts of increased resourcing in the criminal courts.

Overall civil expenditure is increasing which is driven by increases in family law expenditure with the number of claims being paid outside of the fixed fee scheme increasing due to more time being taken during the court process. Other non-family workload has not recovered to the same extent, and this is driven by a slow recovery of housing work although again in the last quarter this has increased. Overall civil legal aid workload still remains below pre-pandemic levels although trends are increasing in domestic violence, immigration and mental health.

Figures are included covering the recently introduced Housing Loss Prevention Advice Service and breakdowns of these numbers are available in the underlying data accompanying this report

Pre-release

Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

Ministry of Justice

Secretary of State for Justice, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Permanent Secretary, Head of Legal Aid Policy (2), Special Advisor Inbox, Legal Aid Policy Officials (6), Press Officers (5), Digital Officers (2), Private secretaries (5), Legal Aid Analysis (2)

Legal Aid Agency

Chief Executive, Chief Executive’s Office, Head of Financial Forecasting, Senior Commissioning Manager, Director of Finance Business Partnering, Service Development Managers (2), Exceptional and Complex Cases Workflow Co-ordinator, Change Manager

Statistics on football-related arrests and banning orders, England and Wales, includes data, trends and football club comparisons for the 2024 to 2025 domestic football season (including regulated football matches played in and outside England and Wales) and has been published shortly after the end of the domestic football season which is earlier than in previous years. Additional statistics, covering international tournaments held in the summer of 2025 and any revisions to the domestic football season data, will be published in autumn 2025.

The release also provides information on reported incidents of football-related violence, disorder, anti-social behaviour and harm connected to football.

The Home Office statistician responsible for the statistics in this release is Jenny Bradley.

If you have any queries about this release, please email PolicingStatistics@homeoffice.gov.uk.

Home Office statisticians are committed to regularly reviewing the usefulness, clarity and accessibility of the statistics that we publish under the https://code.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/">Code of Practice for Statistics. We are therefore seeking your feedback as we look to improve the presentation and dissemination of our statistics and data in order to support all types of users.

To support the future development of these statistics and expand our user reach, we encourage users to complete our https://www.homeofficesurveys.homeoffice.gov.uk/s/LSZP0V/">user engagement survey.

Supporting People client records data provides information about characteristics of clients entering Supporting People services. This data is collected each time a client enters a housing related support service funded by Supporting People.

Outcomes for short-term services data provide information about characteristics and outcomes achieved by clients leaving short-term Supporting People services. This data is collected each time a client exits a short-term (more than 28 days but less than 2 years) housing related support service funded by Supporting People.

The Supporting People client records and outcomes data tables below provide a breakdown of: client records data by service type and primary client group; outcomes for short-term services data by service type, primary client group and; outcomes achieved against identified support needs.

Key provisional headline figures from the April to December 2010 data tables are:

• 164,000 client record forms were received
• the most frequently occurring primary client group (ie predominant need of the client as defined by the service provider) is single homeless with support needs (26%), followed by people at risk of domestic violence (11%)
• 126,700 outcomes for short-term services forms were received

Data quality

Figures are as reported by providers of housing related support services; no estimates are made for missing returns. Data is checked and validated by quality assessors at the Client Records and Outcomes Office based at the University of St Andrews. Validation is carried out according to set list of detectable errors and these errors are resolved by contacting the service provider submitting the data.

Methodology change

The method for calculating the percentage of clients achieving outcomes has been changed to exclude ‘not applicable’ cases from the denominator. This change affects the following outcomes; achieved qualifications, established contact with external services/groups and established contact with family/friends. The number of clients achieving these outcomes is not affected. This change results in a difference in reporting of the Q1-Q3 2010 to 2011 figures as follows:

• 67% (8,500) of clients leaving short-term Supporting People services achieved qualifications, as a proportion of those identifying a need; under the previous method this would have been calculated as 20%
• 91% (57,100) of clients leaving short-term Supporting People services established contact with external services/groups, as a proportion of those identifying a need; under the previous method this would have been calculated as 88%
• 91% (35,800) of clients leaving short-term Supporting People services established contact with friends/family, as a proportion of those identifying a need; under the previous method this would have been calculated as 55%

Figures previously published on the DCLG website for Q1 2010 to 2011 and Q1-2 2010 to 2011 have been revised according to this new method of calculation.

Contact: SupportingPeople.statistics@communities.gsi.gov.uk.

Supporting People client records data provides information about characteristics of clients entering Supporting People services. This data is collected each time a client enters a housing related support service funded by Supporting People.

The data are available from the https://supportingpeople.st-andrews.ac.uk/index.cfm">supporting people website run by the Centre for Housing Research at the University of St Andrews (login required).

Outcomes for short-term services data provides information about characteristics and outcomes achieved by clients leaving short-term supporting people services. This data is collected each time a client exits a short-term (more than 28 days but less than 2 years) housing-related support service funded by supporting people.

Outcomes for long-term services data provides information about characteristics and outcomes achieved by clients in receipt of long-term supporting people services. This data is collected for a sample of clients in long-term (over 2 years) services after completion of their annual support plan. The sample is 10% for older people services and 50% for all other service types.

Key headline figures from the 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010 data are:

• 239,400 client record forms were received, up 9% from 2008 to 2009
• the most frequently occurring primary client group (ie predominant need of the client as defined by the service provider) was single homeless with support needs (27%), followed by people at risk of domestic violence (11%); these were also the most frequently occurring client groups reported for 2008 to 2009; there has been little change in the breakdown of clients groups entering services since the beginning of the supporting people programme
• 174,700 outcomes forms for short-term services were received, up 16% from 2008 to 2009

With the exception of ‘secured/obtained settled accommodation’ which was a new question to the forms in 2009 to 2010, the proportions of clients achieving these outcomes have remained stable compared to 2008 to 2009.

• a sample of 48,900 outcomes forms for long-term services were received, up 2% from 2008 to 2009

The proportions of clients achieving these outcomes have all remained stable compared to 2008 to 2009.

Data quality

Figures are as reported by providers of housing-related support services; no estimates are made for missing returns. Data is checked and validated by quality assessors at the client records and outcomes office based at the University of St Andrews. Validation is carried out according to set list of detectable errors and these errors are resolved by contacting the service provider submitting the data.

These statistics concentrate on the flow of children (aged 10-17) through the Youth Justice System in England and Wales. The data described comes from various sources including the Home Office (HO), Youth Custody Service (YCS), Ministry of Justice (MOJ), Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) and youth secure estate providers. The report is produced by the Information and Analysis Team in the Youth Justice Board (YJB) under the direction of the Chief Statistician in MOJ.

Details of the number of children arrested are provided along with proven offences, criminal history, characteristics of children, details of the number of children sentenced, those on remand, those in custody, reoffending and behaviour management.

The report is published, along with supplementary tables for each chapter, additional annexes, local level data, including in an open and accessible format, an infographic and local level maps.

Pre-release access

Pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons (reflecting the cross-departmental responsibility for children committing crime and reoffending):

MOJ

Secretary of State, Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Victims, Youth and Family Justice, Permanent Secretary, Chief Statistician, Director General of Offender and Youth Justice Policy, Director of Data and Analysis, Deputy Director of Youth Justice Policy, Head of Youth Custody Policy, Head of Courts and Sentencing, Head of Youth Justice Analysis and the relevant special advisers, private secretaries, statisticians and press officers

HMPPS

Director General of HMPPS, Executive Director of the Youth Custody Service, Head of Briefing, Governance and Communications at the Youth Custody Service, and Head of Information Team at the Youth Custody Service

Home Office

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime, Safeguarding and Vulnerability, Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Service and Minister for London, and Head of Serious Youth Violence Unit

YJB

Chair, Chief Executive, Chief Operating Officer, Director of Evidence and Technology, and the relevant statisticians and communication officers