Agenda Item - East Sussex County Council

Caribbean
Appendix 1
Black/Black
British - African
1 0.1% 1 0.1% 6 0.3% 6 0.4%
Any other Black
background
1 0.1% 6 0.4% 14 0.7% 12 0.8%
Chinese 1 0.1% 2 0.1% 3 0.1% 0 0.0%
Any other ethnic
group
9 0.8% 12 0.8% 12 0.6% 5 0.3%
Refused 35 3.2% 76 4.8% 90 4.3% 66 4.4%
Information not
yet obtained
26 2.4% 78 4.9% 65 3.1% 46 3.1%
Totals 1104 100% 1581 100% 2117 100% 1494 100.0%
Gender of alleged victims
4.10 There were more alerts for females than males in 2009/10, with 1,262
female alleged victims, and 855 male alleged victims. This is comparable
with 2008/09 where there were 960 alerts for female alleged victims and
621 alerts for male alleged victims.
4.11 In 2008/09 the proportion of alerts that result in a referral were consistent
across the genders however in 2009/10 there has been a significant
increase in alerts leading to a referral for female alleged victims with 74%
compared with 65% for male alleged victims.
Table 3: Gender of alleged victims
2008/09 2009/10
Males Females Males Females
Alerts
Alerts that
led to a
referral
% of
Alerts to
Referrals
Alerts
Alerts
that led
to a
referral
% of
Alerts to
Referrals
Alerts
Alerts
that led
to a
referral
% of
Alerts to
Referrals
Alerts
Alerts
that led
to a
referral
% of
Alerts to
Referrals
Older 242 223 92.1% 484 450 93.0% 247 200 81.0% 613 529 86.3%
People
(65+)
Physical 54 47 87.0% 67 57 85.1% 101 69 68.3% 107 79 73.8%
Disability
Learning 264 200 75.8% 284 203 71.5% 399 210 52.6% 338 166 49.1%
Disability
Mental 48 37 77.1% 95 73 76.8% 63 54 85.7% 149 123 82.6%
Health
Other 13 9 69.2% 30 24 80.0% 45 25 55.6% 55 39 70.9%
Vulnerable
Person
Total 621 516 83.1% 960 807 84.1% 855 558 65.3% 1262 936 74.2%
Incident by type
4.12 There are six types of abuse, Sexual, Financial, Discriminatory, Physical,
Psychological and Neglect. Table 4 shows the number of investigations for
each type of abuse.
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