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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Chair of child sexual abuse inquiry calls Tory response ‘awful, inconsequential’

Prof Alexis Jay
Prof Alexis Jay published the final IICSA report in October 2022. Photograph: Parliament TV

The last Conservative government issued an “awful, inconsequential, insubstantial” response to a seven-year national inquiry into child sexual abuse, according to its chair.

Prof Alexis Jay, who led the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA), told MPs the written response from the then home secretary, Suella Braverman, to the 20 recommendations had “committed to nothing”.

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