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.

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

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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

Reference Id: OSR14/2011

Publication type: Other Statistics

Publication data: Local authority data

Local authority data: LA data

Region: England

Release date: 14 September 2011

Coverage status: Final

Publication status: Published

This official statistics release contains figures for families receiving support from family intervention services, local services which provide intensive support to families with multiple social, economic, health and behaviour problems. The data covers services in England up to March 2011.

This is the second time these statistics have been published. They will be published on a yearly basis.

The statistical release shows that:

1. The cumulative measure of service capacity is 8,841 families and 5,461 families between 1 April 2010 and 31 March 2011. Local authority figures are in the attached excel spreadsheet.
2. 85% (2,569 families) left the intervention for a successful reason (e.g. formal sanctions had been lifted).
3. 10% (316 families) left for a reason that cannot be counted as a success or a failure (e.g. family moved away, child taken in care).
4. 5% (142 families) left for an unsuccessful reason (i.e. the family refused to engage).
5. There was significant improvement in outcomes for 3,675 families who had exited an intervention, compared to their circumstances at the start.
6. There was, on average, reductions in the proportion of families experiencing the following issues: * 53% reduction in truancy, exclusion or poor behaviour in school (from 58% of families with the issue at the start of the intervention to 28% of families with the issue at exit). * 58% reduction in anti-social behaviour (from 81% to 34%). * 34% reduction in child protection issues (from 27% to 18%). * 57% reduction in domestic violence issues (from 28% to 12%). * 23% reduction in mental health problems (from 36% to 28%). * 40% reduction in drug problems (from 32% to 20%). * 48% reduction in alcohol problems (from 29% to 15%). * 41% reduction in crime (from 35% to 20%). * 14% reduction where no parent was in employment or training (from 68% to 58%).

caroline.prichard@education.gsi.gov.uk

Reference Id: OSR21/2010

Publication Type: Statistical Release

Publication data: Underlying Statistical data

Local Authority data: LA data

Region: England

Release Date: 15 September 2010

Coverage status: Final

Publication Status: Published

The data covers services in England up to March 2010.

This is the first time these statistics have been published. They will be published on a yearly basis. The statistical release shows that:

1. 4,870 families received an intervention up to 31 March 2010 and 3,518 between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2010 (a measure of service capacity). Local authority figures are also provided.
2. 93% of families were either still receiving a family intervention on 31 March 2010 or had exited for a successful reason between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2010 (a measure of service effectiveness). Figures for local authorities will not be published this year as the numbers are too small risking the identification of families.

3. A total of 914 families exited the intervention between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2010. 51 families were excluded from the analysis because they provided both positive and negative reasons. Of the remaining 863 families: * 79% (678 families) left for a successful reason (e.g. formal sanctions had been lifted); * 11% (95 families) left for a reason that cannot be counted as a success or a failure (e.g. family moved away, child taken in care); * 10% (90 families) left for an unsuccessful reason (i.e. the family refused to engage).

4. For each of the four ‘domains’ that were identified between two and four key relevant measures of family outcome were combined and a percentage reduction in risk calculated against each outcome (measures of service outcomes). There was, on average a: * 47% reduction in the number of families experiencing risks associated with poor family functioning, including poor parenting, marriage, relationship & family breakdown, domestic violence or child protection issues; * 47% reduction in the number of families involved in anti-social behaviour and crime; * 34% reduction in the number of families with health issues including mental or physical health and drug or alcohol problems * 34% reduction in the number of families with education and employment issues.

caroline.prichard@education.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.

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.