Today ONS’s Centre for Crime and Justice published Domestic abuse in England and Wales overview: November 2023. 

The release brings together data on domestic abuse from a range of different organisations and supports the UN 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign. 

Commentary is split into the following publications:  

• Domestic abuse prevalence and trends, England and Wales: year ending March 2023 
• Domestic abuse victim characteristics, England and Wales: year ending March 2023 
• Partner abuse in detail, England and Wales: year ending March 2023  
• Domestic abuse and the criminal justice system, England and Wales: November 2023
• Domestic abuse victim services, England and Wales: 2023
• Redevelopment of domestic abuse statistics: research update November 2023
• How domestic abuse data are captured through the criminal justice system 

Additional datasets:

• Domestic abuse in England and Wales - Data tool 
• Stalking: findings from the Crime Survey for England and Wales 

The main points from the publication are:

• The Crime Survey for England and Wales estimated that 2.1 million people aged 16 years and over (1.4 million women and 751,000 men) experienced domestic abuse in the year ending March 2023.
• There was no significant change in the prevalence of domestic abuse experienced in the last year compared with the previous year.
• The police recorded 889,918 domestic abuse-related crimes (excluding Devon and Cornwall) in the year ending March 2023, a similar number to the previous year. 
• There were 51,288 domestic abuse-related prosecutions in England and Wales for the year ending March 2023, compared with 53,207 in the year ending March 2022.
• In the year ending March 2023, the National Domestic Abuse Helpline was contacted 171,490 times; a decrease of 10.7% compared with the year ending March 2022.  

It is important to note that Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) data presented in this release for the year ending March 2023, are not badged as National Statistics. They are based on eight months of data collection because of an error in the survey, which resulted in missing data. Caution should be taken when using these data because of the impact of the reduced data collection period on the quality of the estimates.