The results followed a survey of 2,275 children aged 11 to 17 and 1,761 adults aged 18 to 24.
The findings reveal that 18.6 per cent of the 11- to 17-year-olds said they had been physically attacked by an adult, sexually abused, or severely neglected. A quarter of the 18- to 24-year-olds also reported severe maltreatment during childhood.
Andrew Flanagan, chief executive of the NSPCC, said: "Physical violence, neglect and forced sex are still harming the lives of hundreds of thousands of children, and most of it remains unreported. Successive governments have taken steps to improve child protection but local authorities are under strain providing child protection plans for only a small proportion of cases. The UK still faces a problem in tackling child abuse."
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