Alexis Jay to be questioned on child sexual abuse report

• Home Affairs Committee
• Evidence session: 10am, Tuesday 21 January 
• Watch live at www.parliamentlive.tv

The independent inquiry was launched in 2015 to examine how institutions such as local authorities, religious groups and child custodial facilities had failed in their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse. The final report was published in October 2022 and made recommendations for wide-ranging reform. 

The session will consider how far the recommendations of the report have been implemented. It will also focus on how institutions have responded to the findings and the relationship between the inquiry and government.  

Chair comment

Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, Dame Karen Bradley said:  

“We have a responsibility to ensure that the results of comprehensive public inquiries set up by government are acted upon. For too long, children were failed by those who should have been protecting them. We are holding this session to understand how the government and the different institutions within the remit of the inquiry have responded to its findings. We want to see if there has been progress in the wide-ranging change needed to implement a comprehensive child safety framework and what more needs to be done.” 

Witnesses

• Professor Alexis Jay CBE, Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse 
• John O’Brien, Secretary to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse 

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