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ONS · offence category: 88A Sexual grooming

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud): 88A Sexual grooming

4 periods to Year ending March 2026

28,697offences

Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) for 88A Sexual grooming totalled 28,697 offences in the 4 periods to Year ending March 2026, up 12.5% (3,195) on the 4 periods before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. Table A5a
  3. Sexual grooming [note 28, 33]
  4. column “Apr 2025 to Mar 2026”
  5. 7679 per period
  6. published 23 July 2026

Year ending March 2005 to Year ending March 2026

Police-recorded crime by offence: Year ending March 2005 to Year ending March 2026LabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour02k4k6k20052010201520202025Year ending March 2005: 186 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2006: 237 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2007: 322 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2008: 274 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2009: 313 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2010: 393 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2011: 309 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2012: 371 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2013: 370 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2014: 459 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2015: 677 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2016: 962 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2017: 1,156 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2018: 4,624 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2019: 5,879 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2020: 6,329 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2021: 6,393 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2022: 6,901 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2023: 6,673 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2024: 7,228 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2025: 7,117 offences · published 23 July 2026Year ending March 2026: 7,679 offences · published 23 July 2026
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What this measures

The number of offences recorded by the police in England and Wales for every offence and offence group in the ONS appendix table, for each year ending March since 2003. Coded rows are individual Home Office offence codes; rows marked (subtotal) are the groups the ONS prints without a code.

Offences whose code was retired or introduced part way through the series (shown as unavailable for those years), or fraud reported to Action Fraud and Report Fraud for the latest year.

Source

Dataset
Crime in England and Wales: Appendix tables
Release
Year ending March 2026, published 23 July 2026 · sha256 9e4a930ec090b4b4…
All values
Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) by offence category