A Redress Scheme would be ‘less legalistic’… but the investigation would be less thorough
Clare Jerrom speaks to defendant lawyer Chris Webb-Jenkins, who has 20 years' experience acting for social care providers in the public, private and voluntary sectors, about the possibility of a Redress Scheme being introduced for survivors of abuse in England.
Victims and survivors of child sexual abuse seeking ‘their day in court’ to hold the accused [...]
Meet Our Professionals – Kam Marjara
Kam Marjara joined WillisPalmer last October after 25 years in local authority social work, 17 of which were spent most recently in a London Borough where Kam was an assistant team manager at an assessment service.
Kam had toyed with the idea of independent social work for several years when the London Borough she worked for [...]
Australia launched Redress Scheme in 2018
The National Redress Scheme in Australia began on 1 July 2018 and will run for 10 years.
The scheme was recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which was first announced on 12 November 2012 by the then Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. The commission was established in response [...]
Northern Ireland Redress Scheme operational last year
Northern Ireland introduced a national redress scheme for survivors of historical child sexual abuse in 2019 through the introduction of The Historical Institutional Abuse (Northern Ireland) Act 2019.
The Act followed The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry which closed in June 2017 after 223 days of hearings. The Inquiry investigated 22 institutions in Northern [...]
Lords committee to investigate child vulnerability
The House of Lords Select Committee on Public Services has launched an inquiry into the role of public services in addressing child vulnerability.
The inquiry follows its first report, ‘A critical juncture for public services: lessons from COVID-19’, published in November which included a number of findings on children and public services and will focus on [...]
Building back better post Covid should be focused around children
The government’s pledge to ‘build back better’ and ‘level up’ after the Coronavirus pandemic is just a slogan unless it focuses on children, the children’s commissioner has warned.
The prime minister and all political parties should set a clear goal that’s about children’s lives, not the institutions they attend, Anne Longfield said in her final speech [...]
