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 "id": "sexual-offences-england-wales",
 "title": "Sexual offences recorded by the police, England and Wales",
 "category": "crime-justice",
 "summary": "Sexual offences recorded by the police in England and Wales each year ending March since 2003, in all and as rape, sexual assault, sexual activity with minors and other sexual offences, with the Crime Survey for England and Wales's estimate of the share of adults who experienced sexual assault, from the ONS's sexual offences tables.",
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 "chart": "line",
 "volatile": false,
 "status": "Police recorded crime: official statistics, not accredited",
 "notes": [
  "Offences the police in England and Wales recorded, which depend on what victims report and how the police record it as well as on how much crime there is: the ONS says rises in recent years partly reflect better recording and more victims coming forward. The Crime Survey's estimate is the share of people aged 16 and over who say they experienced sexual assault, including attempts, in the last year.",
  "The Online Safety Act 2023 created new sexual offences, of sharing an intimate photograph or film and of sending a photograph or film of genitals, which the police record from 31 January 2024, as the notes to the Home Office's data say: the counts for the year ending March 2024 and after include them, so part of their rise is offences earlier years did not count.",
  "The Crime Survey's estimates are accredited official statistics; the police's counts are official statistics that are not accredited."
 ],
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  "publisher": "Office for National Statistics",
  "publisher_url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/",
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  "licence": "OGL-3.0",
  "licence_name": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-09T14:59:52Z",
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  "label": "Sexual offences recorded by the police",
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  "period": "2024/25",
  "note": "the Crime Survey estimates that 1.9% of people aged 16 and over experienced sexual assault in the year ending March 2025 (3.0% of women and 0.7% of men)"
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   "name": "Sexual Assault",
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   "name": "Other sexual offences",
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