"Figure 2: The time for cases to complete varies by type of sexual abuse","" "England and Wales, year ending December 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. Includes cases with an offence to completion time greater than 10 years but excludes a small number of cases with identified data quality issues and breaches. 2. Includes all criminal cases which have received a verdict and concluded in the year ending December 2018, in either the magistrates' courts or the Crown Court. 3. Statistics are sourced from linked magistrates' courts and Crown Court administrative data systems - with a match rate of around 95%. 4. Only one offence is counted for each defendant in the case. If there is more than one offence per defendant that complete on the same day, a set of validation rules applies to select one offence only and these relate to the longest duration, seriousness and the lowest sequence number of the offence. 5. The figures include Single Justice Procedure cases that were completed within magistrates’ courts in England and Wales, introduced in June 2015. 6. Excludes cases in the magistrates' court that are committed to the Crown Court. 7. Includes TfL ATCM (automated track case management) cases which started in April 2017. 8. Cases have been classified according to the latest Home Office offence classification. 9. Median number of days is shown. The medians for each stage do not sum to the overall median for offence to completion. 10. ""All child sexual abuse offences"" include ""contact child sexual abuse offences"" and ""child sexual abuse images offences"". 11. ""Contact child sexual abuse offences"" include ""child rape offences"". " "Unit","Average number of days (median)" "","" "","First listing to completion","Charge to first listing","Offence to charge or summons" "All child sexual abuse offences","132","29","406" "Contact child sexual abuse offences","213","29","981" "Child rape offences","245","28","2065" "Child sexual abuse images offences","51","29","273"