Recently, the Home Office published a report on the economic and social cost of child sexual abuse, in which it estimated the financial and non-financial (monetised) cost relating to all survivors who began to experience or continued to experience child sexual abuse in England and Wales up until April 2019 as at least £10.1 billion.
So, what does that ten billion mean? And how have we found ourselves here?
Well, according to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, at least 3.1 million adults currently living in England and Wales were sexually abused before the age of 16. Indeed, the latest statistics from the UK government found that half a million children in England and Wales experienced sexual abuse during 2019 alone. Worrying figures which are also reflected in NAPAC’s own data, with approximately 64 per cent (7,100) of callers to our support line over the past 18 months citing childhood sexual abuse.4
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