To ask His Majesty's Government when they expect the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse to publish its final written report.
Home Office
The Government continues to focus on delivering real change for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse and exploitation.I refer the Noble Lord to the statements made by the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls on 08 April an...
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To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to ensure the full participation of local authorities in Bradford and Wales in their inquiry into grooming gangs.
Home Office
The Government continues to focus on delivering real change for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse and exploitation.I refer the Noble Lord to the statements made by the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls on 08 April an...
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To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the benefits of a national inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Home Office
The Government continues to focus on delivering real change for victims and survivors of child sexual abuse and exploitation.I refer the Noble Lord to the statements made by the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls on 08 April an...
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 28 February 2025 to Question 30996, what powers the Ministers from the Department for Education have been delegated in relation to implementing IICSA.
Home Office
The recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (the Inquiry) covered a broad range of issues and departmental responsibilities, including reforms to the child protection system, improving data, awareness-raising and supporting vict...
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 10 February 2025 to Question 28486 on Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry, which Ministers sit on the cross-Government ministerial group that are considering remaini
Home Office
The Home Office set up an inter-ministerial group in late 2024, which I chaired the first meeting on the 12th November 2024.Ministers from the Home Office, Cabinet Office, Department for Education, Department of Health and Social Care, Ministry of Justice...
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Government plans to implement the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in full.
Home Office
On 16 January the Home Secretary set out to Parliament the steps the Government is taking to tackle the terrible crimes of child sexual exploitation and abuse.This included a commitment to set out a plan, before Easter, for the action the Government will ...
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what her Department's planned timetable is for implementing the recommendations of the Final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published in October 2022.
Home Office
On 16 January the Home Secretary set out to Parliament the steps the Government is taking forward to tackle the terrible crimes of child sexual exploitation and abuse.This includes setting out a clear timetable, before Easter, for taking forward the 20 re...
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To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what the average time is for grooming-gang offences to proceed through the judicial system from initial report to final decision.
Ministry of Justice
Information on timeliness through the criminal justice system is published as part of the quarterly Accredited Official Statistics series “Criminal Court Statistics Quarterly” which is available at the link provided: Criminal court statistics.Information ...
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps the Government is taking to support (a) victims and (b) victims families impacted by grooming gangs; and what steps she is taking to ensure these incidents don't occur in the future.
Home Office
We have been clear that this Government is prioritising work to safeguard children, ensure victims and survivors are protected and supported, while pursing offenders and bringing them to justice.I have supported, and continue to support, many victims and ...
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Home Office
It is essential that we continue to learn from past failings on group-based Child Sexual Exploitation to improve and strengthen our ongoing response to grooming gangs offending.The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), led by Professor Alex...
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects the recommendations of 2022 Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation to be implemented.
Home Office
Tackling child sexual abuse is a cross-government priority and we are working at pace to identify how we can best deliver against the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).The Safeguarding Minister has met Professor Al...
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to prevent the (a) grooming, (b) rape, (c) exploitation and (d) abuse of young girls.
Home Office
The Government is committed to using every lever to ensure all children are protected from sexual exploitation and abuse across our communities and online, regardless of who is perpetrating that horrific abuse. We are committed to continuing to learn from...
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will (a) issue an apology for failures to tackle rape gangs and (b) make an assessment of the potential merits of a compensation scheme for the victims of such gangs.
Home Office
The Government is committed to using every lever to ensure all children are protected from sexual exploitation and abuse across our communities and online, regardless of who is perpetrating that horrific abuse. We are committed to continuing to learn from...
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Home Office
The Government is committed to using every lever to ensure all children are protected from sexual exploitation and abuse across our communities and online, regardless of who is perpetrating that horrific abuse. We are committed to continuing to learn from...
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Home Office
The Government's priority is to take action on delivering against the recommendations of the final report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). The Home Secretary announced on 6th January that we will be bringing in mandatory reporti...
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will commission an investigation into officials who had knowledge of rape gangs and failed to act.
Home Office
The Government is committed to using every lever to ensure all children are protected from sexual exploitation and abuse across our communities and online, regardless of who is perpetrating that horrific abuse. We are committed to continuing to learn from...
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on how many submissions to the Truth Project set up by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse were made by residents in each of the Greater Manchester au
Home Office
The Department does not hold this information. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has now completed its work. In line with the commitment made by the Inquiry, all information relating victims and survivors taking part in the Truth Project was...
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Independent report entitled IICSA: report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published 14 December 2022, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of R
Home Office
The Government is truly grateful to victims and survivors for bravely sharing their perspectives and experiences with the Inquiry and supporting its work over the past seven years.The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published its final Report ...
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To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to work with the Home Secretary to implement the findings of the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse.
Department for Education
The department has a statutory obligation to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) as a witness to the inquiry, and has been a core participant in 9 out of 15 of the investigations that the IICSA has reported on. The department leads on ...
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to improve police responses to child sexual exploitation by organised networks.
Home Office
Home Office investment is supporting the police to relentlessly pursue offenders and protect victims of these horrific crimes. We fund the Tackling Organised Exploitation programme and regional analysts to help uncover more offending.The Vulnerability Kno...
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the recommendations made to date by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse; and whether she has plans to bring forward leg
Home Office
The Government has carefully considered all recommendations made by the Inquiry to date. These recommendations informed the development of the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy, which was published on 22 January, and will continue to inform its impleme...
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the value for money of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in the context of the changes to Government policy that have resulted from that inquiry.
Home Office
The Government has carefully considered all recommendations made by the Inquiry to date. These recommendations informed the development of the Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy, which was published on 22 January, and will continue to inform its impleme...
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made, if any, of the response by different faith groups in England and Wales to historic cases of child abuse.
Home Office
In 2015, the Government set up the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) to consider the extent to which institutions in England and Wales have failed in their duty to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation. The Inquiry operates...
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To ask Her Majesty's Government what has been the cost of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse to date; and what they estimate the total cost of that Inquiry will be.
Home Office
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse is operationally independent and responsible for the management of its own budget. The Inquiry publishes financial statements on a quarterly basis on its website https://www.iicsa.org.uk/.The most recent fin...
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To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Statement by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 25 February (HLWS118), when they will give their response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse’s report on Westminster, published on 25 Feb
Home Office
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse investigation report, ‘Allegations of child sexual abuse linked to Westminster’, was published on 25 February and is available at https://www.iicsa.org.uk/publications/investigation/westminster/executive-sum...
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