Child Maltreatment in the United Kingdom: a Study of the Prevalence of Abuse and Neglect.

Abstract

This first report describes the treatment which the young people experienced from parents and carers, other relatives, adults in their neighbourhood, professionals in positions of responsibility towards them, and age peers at school and elsewhere. It seeks to establish measures of abuse and neglect which are transparent, robust and replicable, based on the best available knowledge from previous research and practitioner experience in the UK and elsewhere. The measures incorporate both what is known about public opinion on the acceptability of behaviour towards children in the UK, and what treatment is likely to be harmful to children, immediately and in the long term. Later reports will link the young people’s experience to other aspects of their childhood, and examine the interrelationships between different types of maltreatment. Sample and methods The study used a random probability sample of young people aged 18 -24 years, who were young enough to be close to their childhood, for whom effects of childhood experience on the young adult would be assessable, but relatively uncontaminated by later stresses of adult life. The method of data collection used was confidential computer assisted interviewing, whereby respondents could enter their answers

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