Tag: IICSA

Child Sex Abuse Inquiry Chair Calls Government Response ‘Weak and Disingenuous’

The hopes of victims and survivors of child sexual abuse in England and Wales have been “dashed” by the government’s “weak” response to the recommendations made following a major inquiry into child sex abuse, according to the inquiry’s chairwoman. Professor Alexis Jay, who chaired the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), said ministers had failed…


Care Home Children Let Down by Police and the State, Janner Abuse Inquiry Finds

Children who reported being sexually abused by the late Labour grandee Lord Janner were “let down by institutional failings,” a damning inquiry into police, prosecution, and social services responses to their allegations has concluded. Leicestershire Police officers investigating decades of abuse claims against Lord Janner regularly “did not look beyond the often troubled backgrounds” of…