Abuse victims will be able to bring compensation claims when they are ready rather than being bound by a three-year time limit, under reforms the Government has acknowledged are “long overdue”.
As well as the deadline to bring personal injury claims being scrapped, apologies will also be made easier to achieve, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said as it announced two more of the 20 recommendations from the 2022 final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) are being acted on.
