Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she expects the recommendations of 2022 Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation to be implemented.

Tackling child sexual abuse is a cross-government priority and we are working at pace to identify how we can best deliver against the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).

The Safeguarding Minister has met Professor Alexis Jay and victims and survivors and has convened the first dedicated cross-Government group to drive forward change and deliver an ambitious programme of activity in response to the inquiry. To ensure that victims’ voices remain at the very heart of this process, we will set up a new victims and survivors panel to work on an ongoing basis with the inter-ministerial group and will set out more details and timescales based on that work in due course.

The Government has already announced action on three key recommendations on mandatory reporting, making grooming an aggravating factor in the sentencing of child sexual offences and introducing a new performance framework for policing.