Recommendation 87: Review CSA support services expenditure (Wales)
From Interim Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published 25 April 2018.
Recommendation
The Chair and Panel recommend that the Welsh Government and the relevant UK government departments work together to establish current levels of public expenditure, and the effectiveness of that expenditure on services for child victims and adult survivors of child sexual abuse in Wales.
In brief (written by this site)
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse reported in October 2022 that the Welsh Government stated in February 2022 that it had obtained public expenditure for support services to victims and survivors of child sexual abuse in Wales, and had asked the National Independent Safeguarding Board for Wales to verify the sums and effectiveness of spend (The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Oct 2022). The inquiry also recorded in October 2022 that the government had fully accepted the recommendation in December 2018 (The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Oct 2022).
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Government response
No government response to this recommendation is on the record yet.
Delivery
No statement on delivery from Welsh Government has been found in the sources searched (last checked 2 October 2026). This is separate from the response above.
What other bodies have found
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Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (6 October 2022)
On 10 December 2018, the Welsh Government wrote to notify the Inquiry that the recommendation has been fully accepted. On 24 February 2022, the Welsh Government stated that it had obtained public expenditure for support services to victims and survivors of child sexual abuse in Wales. The Welsh Government also stated that it had asked the National Independent Safeguarding Board for Wales to verify the sums and effectiveness of spend for victims and survivors.
From: Recommendations - Interim Report
Site note: These are the Inquiry's own words, from its recommendations page for the Interim Report, captured by the Internet Archive on 6 October 2022. They are the Inquiry's account of what the body told it, not the body's own words.
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- Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
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