Last month, the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, issued new interim guidelines for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the police on prosecuting cases of child sexual abuse. Alongside the interim guidance, the CPS has published a consultation on the guidance seeking views on the new approach to be adopted. The new guidelines have been issued in the wake of the spate of recent high-profile cases of child sexual abuse including in the Rochdale and Oxford cases and the Jimmy Savile investigation.
They set out the approach that should be adopted by prosecutors when dealing with child sexual abuse cases and are intended to be applied to all cases where a sexual offence has been committed against a child or young person, unless there are good reasons not to.
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