Children Killed in Domestic Abuse Cases - 2011 to 2021
Keywords
Incidents, Killed, Injured, Domestic, Abuse, Age, Gender, Violence, Alerted, Lockdown.
Publication Number
PUB 1495
FOI Reference Number
16354
Request Title
Children Killed in Domestic Abuse Cases - 2011 to 2021
Date Range
01 April 2015 to 31 December 2021
Information Requested
Please can you provide details of any recorded incidents under 18s have been killed or seriously injured in cases with a domestic abuse motivation in the last 10 years, 2011-2021.
I'd like to get a table containing a breakdown by case specifying:
- All incidents where a child was killed in a case with a domestic abuse motivation.
- All incidents where a child was seriously injured in a case with a domestic abuse motivation.
- Age of the child.
- Gender of the child.
- Type of violence or injury to the child.
- How many times police had been previously alerted to domestic abuse in the home in each case.
- An indication of any of these incidents occurring during lockdown periods.
Disclosure with Exemptions
Part Disclosure with Section 12 Exemption
Information Correct as at
30 November 2022
Date of Disclosure
08 December 2022
Related Documents/Links
Office for National Statistics
FOI 16354 Response
FOI Duty
First Duty – Essex Police holds some of the information relating to your request.
Second Duty – See below.
Fact – The data for the above request is not held in a format that allows for all information to be extracted and verified. Essex Police changed recording systems 01/04/2015 and legacy information cannot be readily achieved.
Refusal – Section 17(5) – Exemption – Section 12(1)
Reasoning – Essex Police are unable to establish the details required for offences 2011-2015 by means of purely sorting or filtering data sources or running a database query tool. Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the production of statistical information. This request would entail manually extracting the requested data and reviewing each record one by one and therefore exceed the time and cost limits under the FOIA. Consequently, Essex Police are exempt from the duty to provide information you have requested under Section 12(1) of the FOIA.
Assisting Outside of the FOI Act
Although excess cost removes the force’s obligations under the FOI Act, as a gesture of goodwill, Essex Police can provide the following information relative to your request.
Caveats:
It should be noted that incidents are recorded according to Home Office Counting Rules and may be subject to reclassification once investigation commence.
Homicide search: dates searched: 01/01/2011 – 31/12/2021. Age at time of incident between 0-17. Person link reason: victim; involved party. HMIC crime tree level 3: Homicide. Home office classification: 001/02; 001/01; 004/01. Filtered to include domestic abuse.
Search for injured: dates searched: 01/01/2011 – 31/12/2021. Age at time of incident between 0-17. Person link reason: victim; involved party. Home office classification: 002/00; 003/02; 004/07; 005/01; 008;01; 056/01. HO classification code: 5E. Filtered to include domestic abuse.
The data below is correct as 30/11/2022.
There were 3 recorded incidents where under 18s had been killed in cases with a domestic abuse motivation between 2011-2021.
The below table shows recorded incidents per year where serious injury to a child in domestic circumstances
|
Grand Total |
2761 |
|
Created Year |
Count of Crimes |
|
2015 |
266 |
|
2016 |
280 |
|
2017 |
377 |
|
2018 |
368 |
|
2019 |
439 |
|
2020 |
490 |
|
2021 |
541 |
The below table shows the age of the injured child per year 2015-2021
|
Grand Total |
1762 |
999 |
2761 |
|
Year |
Under 10 Years |
10-17 Years |
Grand Total |
|
2015 |
169 |
97 |
266 |
|
2016 |
187 |
93 |
280 |
|
2017 |
240 |
137 |
377 |
|
2018 |
239 |
129 |
368 |
|
2019 |
285 |
154 |
439 |
|
2020 |
303 |
187 |
490 |
|
2021 |
339 |
202 |
541 |
The below table shows the gender of the child injured per year 2015-2021
|
Grand Total |
2128 |
619 |
14 |
2761 |
|
Year |
Female |
Male |
Unspecified |
Grand Total |
|
2015 |
181 |
85 |
266 |
|
|
2016 |
207 |
70 |
3 |
280 |
|
2017 |
285 |
92 |
377 |
|
|
2018 |
294 |
74 |
368 |
|
|
2019 |
352 |
85 |
2 |
439 |
|
2020 |
387 |
95 |
8 |
490 |
|
2021 |
422 |
118 |
1 |
541 |
We are sorry that we have not been able to provide all the information you have requested on this occasion. If you do require further information a new request will need to be submitted and the request will be dealt with accordingly. However, the breakdown of data in too much granular detail may identify an individual and after review may be subject to further Section 38 exemptions.