Rape Monitoring Group dashboard change log

This page sets out the changes to the Rape Monitoring Group dashboards since they were first published in May 2018.

Date	Changes
July 2021	Data refreshed to include 2018/19 and 2019/20 data. A text version of each force’s summary page was also published alongside the refreshed dashboard.
July 2021	As well as the data refresh, the following changes were made to the dashboard content: Police force 2017/18 summary (page 3): Added the recorded crime outcome – charge summons percentage. Also added in the new offence types Rape of a Male/Female – Multiple Undefined Offenders added to total police-recorded rape offences chart and the definition of these new offence types. A description of the difference between the Rape Prosecutions (CPS) and Rape Convictions (MoJ) data was added to give greater clarity on why these numbers figures are different. Finally, the map from this page was removed to give space for the charge summons number. Police-recorded rapes and incidents (page 4): Added the new offence types Rape of a Male/Female – Multiple Undefined Offenders added to the offence selection and the definition of these new offence types – note this offence is only available for the year 2019/20. Additional years (2016/17 to 2019/20 ) added to the Incidents not recorded as a crime table, to allow for a comparison over time. Transferred and Cancelled Records (page 5): Added the new offence types Rape of a Male/Female – Multiple Undefined Offenders added to the offence selection and the definition of these new offence types – note this offence is only available for the year 2019/20. The 2015/16 and 2016/17 data has been removed from the detail table. Rape Outcomes (page 6): Added the new offence types Rape of a Male/Female – Multiple Undefined Offenders added to the offence selection and the definition of these new offence types – note this offence is only available for the year 2019/20. CPS force referrals, prosecutions and convictions (page 7): Removed the data for 2013/14 and 2014/15 from all data sets. CPS Area referrals, prosecutions and convictions (page 8): Removed the data for 2013/14 and 2014/15 from all data sets. MoJ Convictions (page 9): Removed the average time taken for prosecution and average custodial sentence length as data is no longer published.
August 2019	Data refreshed to include 2017/18 data. A text version of each force’s summary pages was also published alongside the refreshed dashboard
August 2019	As well as the data refresh, the following changes were made to the dashboard content: Police force 2017/18 summary (page 3): Updated one of the category titles on the pie chart to make it clear it is incidents of rape not recorded as crimes. Police-recorded rapes and incidents (page 4): Changed the display of 100,000 population data to now show three years data. Police-recorded rapes and incidents; Transferred or cancelled records; and Rape outcomes pages (pages 4, 5 and 6): A note was added to make aid in the understanding of what each of the crime categories actually cover. Rape outcomes (page 6): Changed the years covered on the outcomes line charts showing the three most recent years.