Senior members of the inquiry – including its chair Professor Alexis Jay – presented evidence to the education select committee on Tuesday 17 January around the recommendations made in the IICSA's final report, which investigated the extent to which state and non-state institutions had failed to protect children from sexual abuse.
The IICSA’s final report, published in October last year, was the product of a seven-year review of evidence, including testimonies from 7,300 survivors.
It made more than 100 recommendations to better protect children from sexual abuse.
This included a recommendation for mandated reporting of suspected abuse, which urges the government to introduce legislation which would place certain individuals working with children under a statutory duty to report child sexual abuse. This proposal was previously rejected by government in 2018 following a public consultation.
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