The economic cost of child maltreatment in the UK

Preliminary study estimating the lifetime costs of child abuse and neglect

This is the first UK-based study to estimate the lifetime economic costs of child maltreatment. The estimates are based on economic analysis of existing UK longitudinal datasets. This study represents a baseline on which future, more comprehensive, studies could be built when better data are available. By publishing this research we hope to contribute to both the economic evaluation of existing child maltreatment interventions and prevention services and the business case for new services and interventions.

We acknowledge the funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 695300 - HKADeC - ERC-2015-AdG/ERC-2015-AdG).