FOI Ref: FOI/2021/2776
You asked
Please supply the following information:
1) How many children under the age of 15 are injured from unsecured windows each year (or most recent stats) in England and Wales? How many of those children are under 5 years old?
2) How many children under the age of 15 living in East Sussex are injured from unsecured windows each year (or most recent stats)?
3) How many children under the age of 15 are injured from window related accidents each year in England and Wales?
4) What are the trends in Crime for England and Wales in the last forty years. How many of those crimes were domestic burglaries/theft?
5) General crime trends in East Sussex in the last forty years. How many of those crimes were domestic burglaries/theft?
6) How many perpetrators enter a property/attempt to enter a property via a window each year (or most recent stat) in England and Wales?
7) How many perpetrators enter a property/attempt to enter a property via a door each year (or most recent stat) in England and Wales?
8) The findings of the most recent crime survey for England and Wales.
9) When was the last trends in crime survey carried out in England and Wales?
We said
Thank you for your queries.
Unfortunately, we do not hold data on injuries sustained by children due to window-related accidents. NHS Digital and Public Health England may be better placed to assist.
You can find data from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and police recorded crime in our quarterly Crime in England and Wales statistical bulletin. Table A1 of the appendix tables for the latest release shows trends in CSEW incidents of crime from the year ending December 1981 to year ending March 2020, including the number of incidents of domestic burglary and theft.
Please note that in March 2020 the face-to-face survey was put on pause due to the Covid-19 pandemic and we introduced the Telephone-operated Crime Survey for England and Wales (TCSEW). Table A3 of the appendix tables shows data from the TSCEW on the number of domestic burglary and theft incidents for the year ending March 2021.
Table A4 of the appendix tables provides the number of offences recorded by the police by offence type, including domestic burglary and theft offences, for the year ending March 2003 to year ending March 2021.
Unfortunately, we do not hold analysis on robust estimates from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) at detailed geographic levels, therefore we do not have data for East Sussex specifically. However, the Home Office do collect and publish police recorded crime data at Community Safety Partnership level which may be of help to you. You can find data back to the year ending March 2003 in the Open Data Tables.
We published data from the year ending March 2020 CSEW on method of entry in incidents of domestic burglary in our nature of burglary tables. This includes data on the proportion of domestic burglary incidents for which the method of entry was a window or a door.