Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry
(asked on 31st October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse will consider cases of sexual grooming in the UK, including an examination of the particular characteristics of the perpetrators.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
On 25 April 2018 the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published details of the areas it will investigate and research in its interim report - https://www.iicsa.org.uk/reports/interim.
The Inquiry is independent of government and its independence is crucial to its effectiveness. It is for the Inquiry to decide how to conduct its investigations within its terms of reference. As a statutory inquiry, under the Inquiries Act 2005, it has the powers and autonomy it needs to fulfil its important role of getting to the truth, exposing what has gone wrong and learning lessons for the future.