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Survivors criticise ‘abhorrent’ failure to act on child sexual abuse inquiry

Key recommendation of seven-year independent inquiry yet to be enacted more than 15 months on

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2024

NSPCC blasts Government’s ‘piecemeal’ response a year on from major abuse report

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) published its final report exactly one year ago.

The Independent UK · Oct 19, 2023

Alexis Jay warns she will quit C of E safeguarding role if there is interference

Former chair of UK child sexual abuse inquiry has been asked to set up independent safeguarding model

The Guardian - UK · Jul 20, 2023

New compensation scheme to be introduced for child abuse victims - OLD

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), published last October, called for a fixed-term compensation scheme for victims.

The Independent UK · May 22, 2023

Child sexual abuse: what the data tells us about perpetrators and victims

The government has announced plans to make it a crime not to report child abuse. As part of this, the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has vowed to “stamp out” grooming gangs who perpetuate child exploitation. Ending child sexual abuse is of utmost importance. But comments by the home secretary, Suella…

The Conversation · Apr 18, 2023

The Guardian view on Sunak’s grooming crackdown: blunt tools will do more harm than good

Editorial: Child sexual abuse victims deserve more from ministers than divisive stereotypes and inflammatory language

The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2023

Plans to name street after council leader who LIED to child sex abuse inquiry ditched after outcry

The move was fiercely criticised by Richard Scorer, the specialist lawyer who represented victims at the national child sex abuse inquiry

Manchester Evening News · Mar 9, 2023

Child sexual abuse review: listening to children and young people is crucial

The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA), set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris scandals, has published its final report. Commissioned by then home secretary Theresa May in 2014, the inquiry has spent seven years examining how state and private institutions failed to protect…

The Conversation · Nov 2, 2022

The child sexual abuse inquiry did not go far enough

Letters: Boarding schools have escaped real reform, says one victim of abuse, while Dr Bernard Gallagher calls out the austerity-driven crisis in child protection, and Emily Aklan calls for a ban on harmful handcuffing

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2022

Betrayal, cover-ups and the damning failure to protect our children laid bare by years-long inquiry into sexual abuse

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published its final report this week

Liverpool Echo · Oct 23, 2022