Children's services abuse referrals Children's services abuse referrals
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Children, Young People, Education and Skills and published on
29 April 2026.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request 819762035
How many children in Jersey have been referred to Children’s services for harmful sexual behaviour including abuse of other children which can be referred to as peer on peer abuse.
In the years:
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023
2023-2024
2024-2025
Response
Information in relation to the reasoning for referrals to Childrens Services is not held in a format that allows extraction without significant interrogation of individual case files. This would take more than the 12.5 hour limit afforded by the Freedom of information law and as such Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is applied.
Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive
(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.
(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.
(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –
(a) by one person; or
(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.
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