Child sexual abuse inquiry recommendations will be implemented ‘as quickly as can possibly be done’, says Phillips
Jess Phillips has said the implementation of recommendations made by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) will be completed “as quickly as can possibly be done”.
Speaking at Home Office questions in response to Liberal Democrat MP Dr Danny Chambers, Phillips said she had spent the weekend dealing with cases in her Birmingham Yardley constituency linked to grooming of boys and girls by “organised groups of varying different sorts”.
The safeguarding minister added: “We will work absolutely at pace with the stakeholders, including the victims and also [former inquiry chair] professor Alexis Jay, to make sure that what was intended by those recommendations can happen.
“I will do it as quickly as can possibly be done, but I will not do what has previously been done by the previous government and just say ‘yeah sure’ and leave it to chance.”
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