Recommendation 103: Ratify Lanzarote Convention
From Interim Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published 25 April 2018.
Recommendation
The Chair and Panel recommend that the UK government ratifies the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (the 'Lanzarote Convention') without further delay. They also recommend that ratification is followed, again without further delay, by action to implement the Lanzarote Convention. The Chair and Panel recommend that the Home Office, as the lead UK government department, publishes the timetable for ratifying the Lanzarote Convention and taking any additional steps required to make the UK fully compliant by June 2018.
In brief (written by this site)
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, summarising the response of the UK Government of 20 June 2018 on its recommendations page for the interim report as archived in October 2022, recorded that the government ratified the Lanzarote Convention on that date (The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Oct 2022). The record holds no update since the Inquiry's summary of October 2022 (The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Oct 2022).
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Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (6 October 2022)
On 20 June 2018, the UK Government ratified the Lanzarote Convention.
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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