Reporting year 2025

Children in need: A focus on sexual abuse and exploitation

Analysis of children in need assessments data with a focus on children who have been assessed with child sexual abuse or child sexual exploitation.

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Methodology

Find out how and why we collect, process and publish these statistics.


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