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Children: Protection

Answer

The requested information is contained in the following tables.2006 is the latest year for which annually published statistics are available.Data for 2007 will be published on 27 November.

Number of persons proceeded against and number sentenced¹ for the offence of causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable person by result and sentence length, all courts, England and Wales, 2005 and 2006
				Result
	Offence description	Number of prosecutions	Number of convictions	Conditional discharge	Community sentence	Fully suspended sentence	Immediate custody	Indeterminate sentence²
2005	Causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable person³	2	—	—	—	—	—	—
2006		3	2	—	—	—	2	—

		Sentence length
	Offence description	Less than 12 months	12 months and over and less than four years	Over four years
2005	Causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable person³	—	—	—
2006		—	—	2
¹ These data are on the principal offence basis.
² Sentences of imprisonment for public protection introduced by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 on 4 April 2005.
³ Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (S.5)
Note:
These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.
Source:
OMS Analytical Services.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

483 c453-4W; 237310

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Children Protection Vulnerable adults

Link

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