Question follow-through · 60582
Offences against Children
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of classifications that children's services use to record child sexual abuse.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what information her Department holds on the number of classifications that children's services use to record child sexual abuse.
19 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
25 Jun 2025
Answer published
The number of episodes of children in need with the ‘sexual abuse’ and ‘child sexual exploitation’ factors identified in an assessment in the year ending 31 March 2024 can be found at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permal...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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