Signs of emotional abuse may go unnoticed by adults in a child or young person’s lives.
It's difficult to measure exactly how many children in the UK experience emotional abuse. However, research with 2,275 young people aged 11-17 about their experiences of emotional abuse suggests around 1 in 15 children in the UK have been emotionally abused.
This briefing looks at what data and statistics are available to help professionals, and the organisations they work for, make evidence-based decisions about emotional abuse.
It includes information from a number of sources such as data from services which work with children and research into children's and adults' self-reported experiences, which help build up a picture of the scale of emotional abuse.
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