[The profile of violence against children and adolescents according to Child Protection Council records: victims, aggressors and patterns of violence].

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of violence against children and adolescents through the records of Child Protection Councils, associating this violence with the age of the victims and their links with the aggressor.

Method: Data were collected from the records and the prevalence rates were calculated through the Prevalence Ratio (PR), together with the associations among variables, with a critical level of 5%.

Results: Out of 1,293 records of violence, 1,011 (78.