Courts: Children

(asked on 21st February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will increase support available to victims of child abuse when they are attending court.


Answered by
Victoria Atkins Portrait
Victoria Atkins
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
This question was answered on 29th July 2020

The Government is committed to meeting the needs of vulnerable victims and witnesses. It provides the Witness Intermediary Scheme to assist those with communication difficulties, including victims of child abuse.

The majority of requests for Registered Intermediaries (RIs) - a communications specialist who helps witnesses with communication difficulties - concern the assistance of children.

In 2019, RIs assisted more than 4,500 children, 560 of whom were less than 5 years old.

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