In this week’s NLJ, Maryam Syed, criminal and family barrister at 7BR, discusses the path forward for those who feel let down by the government’s response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).
The IICSA, set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, was an enormous seven-year operation which took nearly three million pages of evidence and attempted to give voice to victims and survivors of child sexual abuse and which, as Syed writes, ‘made plain that the extent of such abuse was unquantifiable due to the complete lack of unified and coherent data’.
Syed, who has specialised in child sexual abuse for more than 20 years and has sat as a part-time Crown Court judge since 2012, covers the IICSA’s recommendations, the government’s response and the criticism of this response. She looks ahead at what can be done now, and what action a future government might be asked to take—read more here.
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