The Latest Breaking News from IICSA

UK's sex offense laws are going to be strengthened with stricter child sexual abuse law which makes it a punishable offence to hide any child sexual exploitation leading to prison term.

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

The panel said it fears action on its recommendations could be deferred indefinitely ‘for the sake of other political priorities’.

Plans announced by Suella Braverman ‘will not provide the protection from sexual abuse that our children deserve’, Alexis Jay warns

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

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

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

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…