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Former chair of UK child sexual abuse inquiry has been asked to set up independent safeguarding model

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

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…

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

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