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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…

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

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The £186.6 million Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, launched in 2015, published its final report on Thursday.

Gordon Brown had called child migration ‘government-induced (human) trafficking’ which was a ‘bigger sex scandal’ than Jimmy Savile.

Sometimes school’s reputation took priority, says IICSA report on residential schools in England and Wales

Inquiry official calls for the ethnicity data of grooming gangs to be recorded so the ‘scale and nature’ of the abuse is understood and can be acted upon

Councils and police forces were found to be 'denying the scale of the problem' across six case study areas

Several victims told police of abuse but no action was taken, while they were arrested for minor offences

Inquiry identifies ‘extensive failures’ by councils and police, leaving victims treated as offenders while perpetrators go free