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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

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Ex-sex abuse inquiry boss to lead work on Church of England safeguarding

Professor Alexis Jay vowed to withdraw from her role ‘if I detect any attempt to interfere with or to hinder my work’.

The Independent UK · Jul 20, 2023

Church of England to set up £150m fund for victims of church-related abuse

The Church of England has allocated £150 million in funding for a national redress scheme.

The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2023

Government response weak and at times disingenuous – abuse inquiry chairwoman

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

The Independent UK · May 30, 2023

Child sex abuse inquiry chair slams government’s ‘disappointing’ response to recommendations

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

The Independent UK · May 22, 2023

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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

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Manchester Evening News · Oct 21, 2022

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The Independent UK · Oct 20, 2022

Child abuse inquiry calls for tougher laws and compensation scheme for victims

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

The Independent UK · Apr 22, 2022

Former child migrant lifts lid on UK’s ‘biggest sex abuse scandal’

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2022

Schools too often reluctant to report child sexual abuse, inquiry finds

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

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The Independent UK · Feb 6, 2022

Fight against grooming gangs hindered by fear of being branded racist, says official

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

Chronicle Live · Feb 1, 2022

Inquiry finds 'extensive failures' in the way child sexual exploitation is tackled in County Durham

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

The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2022

Arrested and ignored: The ordeal of grooming gang victims at hands of authorities there to protect them

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

The Independent UK · Feb 1, 2022

Grooming gangs still sexually abusing children across country in ‘most degrading and destructive ways’

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

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