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Nujoji Calvocoressi will be stepping down from his role on the Inquiry’s Victims and Survivors Consultative Panel at the end of June in order to return to full time education.
The Truth Project, part of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, is drawing to a close in October 2021 so all of the accounts shared can be used to inform the findings and recommendations in the Inquiry’s Final Report, due to be published next year.
Six UK political parties have now either created or improved their child safeguarding policy in response to recommendations made by the Inquiry during the Westminster report.
The Inquiry welcomes the Football Association's Independent Review into Child Sexual Abuse in football between 1970 and 2005.
"The extensive review details a tragic and disturbing insight into abuses of power and trust within professional football. The Inquiry will take it into account when compiling its Final Report, due to be published in 2022."
A key Inquiry recommendation to ban clergy from sexual relationships with 16-18 year olds in their care could be implemented as part of a new bill.
New legislation planned for England and Wales would mean faith leaders and sports coaches are defined as ‘positions of trust’ alongside teachers and doctors.
It would therefore make sexual relationships between people in these positions and those they supervise illegal.
The Inquiry has issued further updates on institutional responses to its recommendations.
In April 2018 the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published its Cambridge House, Knowl View and Rochdale investigation report, following three weeks of public hearings in 2017. 30 witnesses gave evidence in person and 28 written statements were offered in evidence.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has today (18 February) published a summary of victims and survivors’ views and experiences of protected characteristics. The report found 73 percent of Forum members who took part in the survey felt that their protected characteristics had impacted their interaction with institutions about child sexual abuse.
New research from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has found that over two thirds of victims and survivors did not tell anyone that they were being sexually abused at the time it was happening. One in 10 disclosed the abuse for the first time when they spoke to the Inquiry’s Truth Project.
This year the Inquiry is highlighting a different report each month