PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Offences against Children (26 April 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will bring forward proposals for the College of Policing to develop training content and accreditation arrangements for officers on preventing and responding to child sexual abuse in line with the recommendation of the Interim Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, published on 25 April 2018.

Asked by:
Sarah Champion (Labour)

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published its Interim Report on 25 April. The Report contains a series of recommendations for specific changes, several of which are directed at Government. The Government welcomes the Report and is now considering the Inquiry’s recommendations very carefully. We will respond fully in due course.

Answered by:
Victoria Atkins (Conservative)
30 April 2018