Report Summary
This provides an overview of Police Scotland's contact with children and young people alongside a comparison with England and Wales
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Background
The Children and Young People’s Commissioner defines a child or young person as someone who has not yet reached 18 years of age, or 21 if they are care experienced. There are over 1 million children and young people in Scotland.
By the age of eight, two-thirds of Scotland’s children will have experienced one or more Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE)-related factors and one in ten will have experienced three or more ACE-related factors (Scottish Health Survey 2019). There is a growing body of evidence that links childhood adversity to increases in both victimisation and criminality in adulthood.
