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<p>The police recorded crime data that the Home Office receives from the police forces
of England and Wales relate only to how many crimes are recorded and not how many
reports are received. It is only possible to centrally provide figures for certain
sexual offences that identify the age of the victim in statute, namely: <br><br>
Rape of a female child under 16<br> Rape of a female child under 13<br> Rape of
a male child under 16<br> Rape of a male child under 13<br> Sexual assault on a
female child under 13<br> Sexual assault on a male child under 13<br> Sexual activity
involving a child under 13<br> Sexual activity involving child under 16<br> Sexual
grooming (the victim must be under 16)<br><br>Data for these offences are provided
at the community safety partnership (CSP) level in Tables A and F. Police recorded
crime data are not wholly available at the local authority level although in most
areas local authorities and CSPs are coterminous. <br><br>Data are provided for the
financial year 2009/10 due to changes in offence codes in April 2009 and data for
2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14 are provided for context (Tables B to E).<br><br>Recent
increases in the overall number of recorded sexual offences have been attributed by
the Office for National Statistics to a) the willingness of victims to come forward
and report these crimes to the police, partly due to wider ‘operation Yewtree effect,
where victims of sexual offences that are not directly connected to Yewtree are now
reporting these offences to the police. and b) an improvement in crime recording by
the police for these offences. <br><br>The information requested is also published
quarterly as part of the police recorded crime open data tables and can be accessed
in an unformatted list here):<br><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-recorded-crime-open-data-tables</a>
<br>(see tables titled ‘Police recorded crime data by community safety partnership’).</p><p>
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