Looking at childhood vulnerability, three parental factors have been identified as commonly present in many vulnerable children’s lives, known to some as the “toxic trio”:

mental ill-health
domestic abuse
substance misuse

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Using the Crime Survey for England and Wales, we’ve measured for the first time the prevalence of these factors in households with children aged 10 to 15, comparing their experience of victimisation with children in households without these factors http://ow.ly/jrYN50Cc8SQ 

From March 2017 to March 2019, an estimated 751,000 children (19.3%) lived in households with an adult reportedly experiencing one or more of the “toxic trio” (mental ill-health, domestic abuse or substance misuse) in the last 12 months http://ow.ly/VBr150Cc8W1 

Children in households with an adult reporting mental ill-health or domestic abuse were more likely to have been a victim of crime in the last 12 months (16.7% and 16.1%, respectively) than children in households without these factors http://ow.ly/Pdqt50Cc91D 

Violent crime was around twice as likely to be experienced by children living in households with mental ill-health or domestic abuse compared with children living in households where the interviewed adult didn’t report these factors http://ow.ly/NaZN50Cc99Q 

Around one-third of children living in households with mental ill-health or domestic abuse had been bullied in the last year.

This is compared with less than one-fifth of children living in households without mental ill-health http://ow.ly/Xlog50Cc9qb