Title

Number of completed referrals, by age and gender of alleged victim, year ending 31 March

Last update

22 February 2017 22 February 2017

Next update

No longer updated

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Protection of vulnerable adults (PVA2) data collection, Welsh Government

Contact email

stats.pss@gov.wales

Designation

None

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Local authorities

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

This table presents data in relation to allegations of abuse against adults. The Welsh Government requires local authorities to deliver annual adult protection reports, including data to commonly agreed standards established through 'In Safe Hands', published in 2000. While extensive efforts have been made to gather reliable and accurate information from local authorities, the data remains imperfect. For this reason, caution is needed in drawing
conclusions from the data if they are not supported by other evidence.

Data collection and calculation

Up to 2011-12, the data was been collected from local authorities via one of two ways.
• Most authorities used a database system to record the details of individual referrals, and
these were then shared with the Welsh Government at the end of each year.
• The remaining authorities supplied data on a pre-defined form. In each year, this form has
asked for counts of referrals for each of a series of aspects (e.g. category of vulnerability,
abuse type, status of allegation and so on), often broken down by age and gender.

For the year 2012-13 onwards, a single form for the collection of data from all local authorities is in operation. This is supported by the improved guidance that has been developed in conjunction with local authority adult protection co-ordinators.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Data are shown for each financial year from 2007-08.

Users, uses and context

Please find this information in the related publication, as per the given weblink.

Rounding applied

The following measures have been taken to minimise the risk of unwanted disclosure of personal data:
All figures have been rounded to the nearest five. Where there are less than five adults in any group, the actual number has been suppressed, and replaced by the symbol *.

Revisions information

None

Weblinks

http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/protection-vulnerable-adults/?lang=en;
http://wales.gov.uk/docs/statistics/2013/130411-aggregate-pss-statistics-quality-report-en.pdf

Keywords

Abuse; Protection

Statistical quality

Please find this information in the related statistical publication, or alongside further information on quality and methods in the Quality Report, as per the given weblinks.

Name

CARE0053