Section 4. Findings
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Fifty-eight per cent of children reported that they had not experienced victimisation by staff.
This varied between establishment, from 78% of respondents at Medway to fewer than half
(47%) of respondents at Feltham.
Figure 30: Staff here have not victimised me
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Over half (55%) of respondents said they would report it if they were victimised by staff.
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Overall, verbal abuse was the most common type of victimisation that children reported
from staff (33%).
Figure 31: Types of victimisation by staff
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Analyses on sub-population data for types of victimisation by staff revealed that:
Verbal abuse (reported by 33% of children)
• A significantly higher proportion of children from a black and minority ethnic
background than children from a white background reported that they had been verbally
abused by staff (38% compared with 28%).
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