Responses to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request returned by 15 police forces across England, which serve approximately a third of the country’s population, reveal of the average 1,444,225 domestic abuse incidents reported to police annually in England (ONS data from 2021 to 2023), 13 per cent have involved an infant being present. This translates to an estimated 187,750 babies (from birth to age 2) on average each year.
The For Baby’s Sake Trust, which carried out the research, says its findings highlight that babies and children are also victims of the dramatic increase in domestic abuse, which has ‘lifelong impacts on physical, emotional and mental health’.
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