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Transcript for Justice and redress | Recommendations for Change: a series about the IICSA final report - episode 5

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PRODUCER: Please note this podcast contains mention of

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PRODUCER: child sexual abuse.

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PRODUCER: In 2015, the Independent Inquiry into Child

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PRODUCER: Sexual Abuse was set up to investigate where

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PRODUCER: institutions failed to protect children in

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PRODUCER: their care.

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PRODUCER: The inquiry's final report, published in

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PRODUCER: October 2022, laid out a set of

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PRODUCER: powerful recommendations to address past

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PRODUCER: failings and protect future generations of

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PRODUCER: children from abuse.

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PRODUCER: Recommendations for Change is a five-part

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PRODUCER: podcast series from NSPCC Learning, examining

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PRODUCER: why these recommendations are needed, how

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PRODUCER: they'll work if implemented, and what impact

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PRODUCER: they will have on the prevention of child

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PRODUCER: sexual abuse.

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PRODUCER: Episode five: justice and redress.

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PRODUCER: The criminal and civil justice systems play an

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PRODUCER: important role in the way the state responds to

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PRODUCER: child sexual abuse.

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PRODUCER: However, many of IICSA's investigations feature

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PRODUCER: details of inadequate responses from the

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PRODUCER: police, Crown Prosecution Service and courts.

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PRODUCER: Through the IICSA Truth Project, victims and

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PRODUCER: survivors were able to share their firsthand

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PRODUCER: experiences of the justice system, from initial

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PRODUCER: disclosure of abuse, through investigation by

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PRODUCER: the police force or CPS, and then to court.

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PRODUCER: The IICSA final report summarises the

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PRODUCER: challenges they faced in pursuit of justice,

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PRODUCER: including failures by police forces to fully

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PRODUCER: investigate reports of child sexual abuse and

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PRODUCER: delays in court proceedings, which can be

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PRODUCER: stressful and traumatising for victims and

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PRODUCER: survivors.

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PRODUCER: In this final episode of Recommendations for

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PRODUCER: Change, we'll be exploring how the information

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PRODUCER: and recommendations proposed in the IICSA final

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PRODUCER: report might improve victims and survivors

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PRODUCER: experiences of the criminal justice system.

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PRODUCER: We'll also be looking at proposed changes to

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PRODUCER: the available schemes of compensation and

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PRODUCER: redress.

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PRODUCER: The first person I spoke to about policing and

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PRODUCER: the criminal justice system was Ian Critchley.

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PRODUCER: Ian is the National Police Chiefs Council lead

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PRODUCER: for child protection and was previously the

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PRODUCER: deputy chief constable of Merseyside Police.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: My role, so this can be broken down into

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IAN CRITCHLEY: three or four key areas.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: One is making sure that policing

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IAN CRITCHLEY: consistently develops and enhances its

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IAN CRITCHLEY: approach to prevent child abuse,

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IAN CRITCHLEY: to give confidence to victims — both

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IAN CRITCHLEY: children and adult survivors — to come

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IAN CRITCHLEY: forward and to bring more offenders to

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IAN CRITCHLEY: justice. So that's a really critical area

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IAN CRITCHLEY: for us. And clearly we take much learning

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IAN CRITCHLEY: from from IICSA around that.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: Two is to enhance partnerships at the

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IAN CRITCHLEY: national and local levels.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: I work very much with national key

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IAN CRITCHLEY: stakeholders, both within government,

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IAN CRITCHLEY: statutory partners, but also obviously

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IAN CRITCHLEY: charitable organisations and third sector

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IAN CRITCHLEY: like the NSPCC as well.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: And thirdly, I work very closely with the

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IAN CRITCHLEY: College of Policing and the Vulnerability

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IAN CRITCHLEY: Knowledge Practice Programme to make sure

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IAN CRITCHLEY: that we are converting strategy and

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IAN CRITCHLEY: reviews into action that makes

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IAN CRITCHLEY: a real difference at every level, whether

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IAN CRITCHLEY: that's our specialist child protection

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IAN CRITCHLEY: teams, whether that is our front line

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IAN CRITCHLEY: officers — you know, new 20,000 officers

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IAN CRITCHLEY: come into the organisation — contact

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IAN CRITCHLEY: centre staff; everybody within the system

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IAN CRITCHLEY: knows their role, also knows the partner

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IAN CRITCHLEY: role, so we can work together to best

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IAN CRITCHLEY: protect children from abuse that we know

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IAN CRITCHLEY: will have a lifelong impact.

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PRODUCER: Ian began by giving an overview of the

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PRODUCER: recommendations and findings in the IICSA final

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PRODUCER: report relating to the justice system.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: There is clearly within the 20 key

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IAN CRITCHLEY: recommendations, requirements to review

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IAN CRITCHLEY: the joint inspection of the Victims' Code

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IAN CRITCHLEY: and also removal of the three year time

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IAN CRITCHLEY: limitations for civil claims as well;

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IAN CRITCHLEY: recognising the impact that child

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IAN CRITCHLEY: abuse has on victims, and also

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IAN CRITCHLEY: timeliness in terms of confidence to

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IAN CRITCHLEY: report, as well.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: So I think they are some of the key

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IAN CRITCHLEY: recommendations within there.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: I remind myself of what was the evidence

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IAN CRITCHLEY: that was given and provided across the

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IAN CRITCHLEY: criminal justice system, and it is at this

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IAN CRITCHLEY: point where I continue to reiterate my

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IAN CRITCHLEY: apology on behalf of policing and the

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IAN CRITCHLEY: failures that took place over many years

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IAN CRITCHLEY: in relation to the way we

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IAN CRITCHLEY: failed to believe,

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IAN CRITCHLEY: listen, to deal with timeliness

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IAN CRITCHLEY: of investigation, to signpost to

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IAN CRITCHLEY: victim support services,

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IAN CRITCHLEY: to make sure our language was appropriate

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IAN CRITCHLEY: at all times and was no way victim

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IAN CRITCHLEY: blaming, to provide communications in

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IAN CRITCHLEY: relation to how quick our investigations

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IAN CRITCHLEY: were progressing or not as well.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: And, I also remind myself that we are part

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IAN CRITCHLEY: and parcel of the wider criminal justice system.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: So CPS, there was evidence given

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IAN CRITCHLEY: within the Truth Project around the need

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IAN CRITCHLEY: for CPS to give further information around

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IAN CRITCHLEY: verdicts, sentencing, decisions not to

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IAN CRITCHLEY: prosecute.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: The court system, quite frankly, is just

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IAN CRITCHLEY: too slow for victims once they do make

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IAN CRITCHLEY: that difficult decision to disclose, years

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IAN CRITCHLEY: and years sometimes in the waiting.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: And then, I read from from

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IAN CRITCHLEY: one victim, Bethany, within the Truth

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IAN CRITCHLEY: Project, whose quote: "the sentence

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IAN CRITCHLEY: massively diminished the crime.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: It makes me feel worthless." So, again,

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IAN CRITCHLEY: very careful around when we talk about

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IAN CRITCHLEY: outcomes, that this is lifelong and a

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IAN CRITCHLEY: criminal justice element is just one bit

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IAN CRITCHLEY: of that.

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PRODUCER: Focusing in on the police force.

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PRODUCER: The police are often the first to be told about

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PRODUCER: an incident of child sexual abuse.

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PRODUCER: Of the IICSA Truth Project participants who did

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PRODUCER: disclose their abuse at the time it was

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PRODUCER: happening, 33% disclosed to

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PRODUCER: the police. It's therefore critical that police

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PRODUCER: forces respond appropriately to such reports.

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PRODUCER: Unfortunately, as you just alluded to, a number

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PRODUCER: of victims and survivors talked about the

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PRODUCER: police not taking formal action after reports

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PRODUCER: were made. Please can you explain where the

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PRODUCER: police force has gone wrong in responding to

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PRODUCER: child sexual abuse in the past, and what needs

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PRODUCER: to be done to improve responses to CSA going

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PRODUCER: forward?

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IAN CRITCHLEY: Yeah. If I touch, first of all, I suppose

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IAN CRITCHLEY: on what we're doing in policing and what

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IAN CRITCHLEY: was identified in IICSA. So, really

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IAN CRITCHLEY: interesting fact that, you know, up until

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IAN CRITCHLEY: 1988 the uncorroborated evidence of a

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IAN CRITCHLEY: child was inadmissible [in court]. You

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IAN CRITCHLEY: know, a myth— a criminal justice system

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IAN CRITCHLEY: that perpetuated a myth about

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IAN CRITCHLEY: children. We didn't link perpetrators

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IAN CRITCHLEY: together. So we might have had an

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IAN CRITCHLEY: investigation 'A' over here — it might

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IAN CRITCHLEY: even have been in the same force — or

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IAN CRITCHLEY: investigation 'B' over here, but not

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IAN CRITCHLEY: talking to each other. Perfect case of

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IAN CRITCHLEY: that was obviously the appalling offences

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IAN CRITCHLEY: committed by Jimmy Saville, around it,

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IAN CRITCHLEY: which led to obviously developments and us

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IAN CRITCHLEY: enhancing both the police national

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IAN CRITCHLEY: database but also Operation Hydrant around it. A

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IAN CRITCHLEY: hierarchy that existed in police forces

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IAN CRITCHLEY: where concerns by our investigators were

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IAN CRITCHLEY: failed to be able to be acted on by

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IAN CRITCHLEY: strategic leaders.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: I talked about a victim blaming and

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IAN CRITCHLEY: belief: we historically have arrested

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IAN CRITCHLEY: children who were seeking to report crimes

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IAN CRITCHLEY: of abuse, leaving the abuser free to

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IAN CRITCHLEY: continue to have perpetrate their

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IAN CRITCHLEY: appalling crimes. Areas like missing, we

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IAN CRITCHLEY: weren't picking up on the warning signs.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: So areas like missing, failing to

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IAN CRITCHLEY: undertake quality return interviews and

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IAN CRITCHLEY: really not identifying the scale and

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IAN CRITCHLEY: nature of it, particularly around

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IAN CRITCHLEY: group-based offending of course.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: In some areas, we were paying deference

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IAN CRITCHLEY: to persons in positions of prominence as

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IAN CRITCHLEY: well, who escaped justice.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: Making wrong decisions by police and CPS

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IAN CRITCHLEY: to prosecute — I've actually just chaired a

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IAN CRITCHLEY: child sexual abuse referral panel.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: And we've also now got since 2013

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IAN CRITCHLEY: the right to review. So giving an

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IAN CRITCHLEY: opportunity for victims to review NFA

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IAN CRITCHLEY: decisions by police and the CPS.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: Of course, we want to make sure we make

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IAN CRITCHLEY: the right decisions in the first place.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: What are we doing around that?

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IAN CRITCHLEY: We're working very closely with the College

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IAN CRITCHLEY: of Policing to enhance our training of

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IAN CRITCHLEY: both our specialist staff and our

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IAN CRITCHLEY: frontline staff. IICSA makes specific

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IAN CRITCHLEY: recommendations in reference to special

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IAN CRITCHLEY: measures for children.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: So, of course, we brought in achieving

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IAN CRITCHLEY: best evidence interviews.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: And now, a victim's testimony

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IAN CRITCHLEY: can be obviously played in terms of the

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IAN CRITCHLEY: digital recording of that, but we've also

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IAN CRITCHLEY: now progressed on to, in some areas, the

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IAN CRITCHLEY: examination and cross-examination also

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IAN CRITCHLEY: being done as recorded, as well, to

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IAN CRITCHLEY: again assist a victim within that

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IAN CRITCHLEY: area. The Victims' Code: IICSA makes

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IAN CRITCHLEY: specific reference to the Victims' Code

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IAN CRITCHLEY: and the 12 rights within there, first

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IAN CRITCHLEY: published in 2005, I think.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: I think what's key within there, there is

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IAN CRITCHLEY: a right for victims to have a referral to

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IAN CRITCHLEY: support for victims. Yet IICSA found that

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IAN CRITCHLEY: very few victims were getting advocacy and

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IAN CRITCHLEY: support during an investigation stage.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: But, as we know, victims need different

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IAN CRITCHLEY: types of support, particularly around

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IAN CRITCHLEY: their mental health and well-being, and

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IAN CRITCHLEY: that just wasn't being provided or

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IAN CRITCHLEY: signposted.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: They have a right to be provided the

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IAN CRITCHLEY: information about the investigation, the

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IAN CRITCHLEY: trial and compensation, and this wasn't

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IAN CRITCHLEY: happening. They have a right to be

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IAN CRITCHLEY: informed about the outcome and appeal and

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IAN CRITCHLEY: how the offender will be managed,

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IAN CRITCHLEY: as well. And a right to have the knowledge

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IAN CRITCHLEY: and use of special measures as well.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: So good reference in IICSA, to make

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IAN CRITCHLEY: sure that we are fulfilling what is

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IAN CRITCHLEY: already within the Victims'

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IAN CRITCHLEY: Code and it is our responsibility to make

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IAN CRITCHLEY: sure is undertaken and progressed in a

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IAN CRITCHLEY: really professional, caring, empathetic

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IAN CRITCHLEY: way.

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PRODUCER: You mentioned survivors have a right to

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PRODUCER: advocacy during investigations, but that very

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PRODUCER: few victims and survivors are getting that

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PRODUCER: advocacy.

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PRODUCER: How do we improve access to advocacy during an

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PRODUCER: investigation of child sexual abuse?

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IAN CRITCHLEY: I think there's a real challenge here in

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IAN CRITCHLEY: terms of advocacy, whether that's for

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IAN CRITCHLEY: children, whether that's for adult survivors,

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IAN CRITCHLEY: I see it across a wider area of

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IAN CRITCHLEY: vulnerability around advocates for

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IAN CRITCHLEY: domestic abuse as well.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: There is a critical role here for police

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IAN CRITCHLEY: and crime commissioners, to make sure

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IAN CRITCHLEY: there is good joined-up funding streams

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IAN CRITCHLEY: for the advocacy of such

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IAN CRITCHLEY: a service. I do believe — and one of the

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IAN CRITCHLEY: recommendations from IICSA was a joint

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IAN CRITCHLEY: inspection of the Victims' Code, and it

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IAN CRITCHLEY: does also obviously feature in terms of

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IAN CRITCHLEY: HMICFRS inspections as to how they are

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IAN CRITCHLEY: applying the Victims' Code, but clearly it

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IAN CRITCHLEY: goes beyond the policing responsibility

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IAN CRITCHLEY: here to other statutory

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IAN CRITCHLEY: partners as well.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: I do think there needs to be a national

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IAN CRITCHLEY: review of both the funding

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IAN CRITCHLEY: and the provision of children's and

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IAN CRITCHLEY: adult survivors advocacy service,

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IAN CRITCHLEY: particularly around therapeutic support.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: We know only too well the pressure that's

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IAN CRITCHLEY: on services like CAMHS as well.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: And we know only too well that if we don't

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IAN CRITCHLEY: catch it early, and we don't intervene

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IAN CRITCHLEY: early with the right level of support

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IAN CRITCHLEY: and intervention, then we know that harm

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IAN CRITCHLEY: to that young person or adult survivor

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IAN CRITCHLEY: will get much, much worse.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: And there will be a cost to that.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: There will be a financial cost, because

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IAN CRITCHLEY: that will mean that that person will

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IAN CRITCHLEY: require services for a long time that

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IAN CRITCHLEY: haven't been provided at the earliest

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IAN CRITCHLEY: opportunity.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: But most sadly, there's obviously human

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IAN CRITCHLEY: cost of harm, and we will find that that

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IAN CRITCHLEY: person, that victim of crime, will be in

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IAN CRITCHLEY: and out of interventions for

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IAN CRITCHLEY: a long time, if not for the rest of their

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IAN CRITCHLEY: lives. So there's absolutely a moral

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IAN CRITCHLEY: requirement and a human requirement on us

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IAN CRITCHLEY: to improve the position that we're in now.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: I've talked earlier on about the scale

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IAN CRITCHLEY: of child abuse: we're now dealing with over

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IAN CRITCHLEY: 100,000 crimes reported to us.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: Each one of those persons is a victim in

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IAN CRITCHLEY: their own right and absolutely deserves

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IAN CRITCHLEY: the advocacy that will help them

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IAN CRITCHLEY: through not just any criminal justice

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IAN CRITCHLEY: process that takes place.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: And that is important.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: And, you know, being confident

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IAN CRITCHLEY: that they've been dealt with in the most

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IAN CRITCHLEY: appropriate way is important, but much

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IAN CRITCHLEY: beyond, much beyond that.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: And I think there's a real stretch and

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IAN CRITCHLEY: strain on the advocacy service that needs

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IAN CRITCHLEY: a complete review and an overhaul that's

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IAN CRITCHLEY: recommended by IICSA.

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PRODUCER: In our conversation, Ian identified areas for

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PRODUCER: improvements that sit outside of IICSA's 20

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PRODUCER: main recommendations, particularly the need for

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PRODUCER: police services to improve the way they respond

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PRODUCER: to victims and survivors.

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PRODUCER: Simon Bailey was Ian's predecessor as National

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PRODUCER: Police Chiefs Council lead for Child

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PRODUCER: Protection, serving in post for eight years.

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PRODUCER: He is now a member of the Child Safeguarding

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PRODUCER: Practice Review Panel.

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PRODUCER: I spoke to Simon about the same topic: what

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PRODUCER: changes are needed to improve the experiences

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PRODUCER: of the criminal justice system for victims and

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PRODUCER: survivors of child sexual abuse?

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SIMON BAILEY: For me, it starts with with

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SIMON BAILEY: the basics.

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SIMON BAILEY: And first and foremost — it's something I

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SIMON BAILEY: feel very strongly about, I feel

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SIMON BAILEY: passionately about, and have done my best

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SIMON BAILEY: to champion — and that's the importance of

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SIMON BAILEY: victims knowing that at the point

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SIMON BAILEY: of reporting their abuse,

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SIMON BAILEY: that they are believed.

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SIMON BAILEY: There is really significant academic

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SIMON BAILEY: research that has been done that talks

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SIMON BAILEY: about one of the biggest hurdles for

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SIMON BAILEY: victim/survivors to overcome is: "am

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SIMON BAILEY: I going to be believed to the point of

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SIMON BAILEY: reporting my abuse?" And knowing that

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SIMON BAILEY: they are reporting into a justice system

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SIMON BAILEY: that from the— at the start of that report

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SIMON BAILEY: — and I will clarify that — they are going

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SIMON BAILEY: to be believed, is essential.

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SIMON BAILEY: And victims, I think, are

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SIMON BAILEY: owed that right.

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SIMON BAILEY: However — and this is where it's

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SIMON BAILEY: nuanced and it's important that there is

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SIMON BAILEY: real clarity around this — once the

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SIMON BAILEY: report has been taken, once the evidence

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SIMON BAILEY: has been secured as best it can be at that

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SIMON BAILEY: point, thereafter there

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SIMON BAILEY: has to be an investigation without fear or

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SIMON BAILEY: favour, and police officers, police

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SIMON BAILEY: staff, then need to go wherever the

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SIMON BAILEY: evidence will take them.

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SIMON BAILEY: And I have not spoken to a victim/survivor

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SIMON BAILEY: that doesn't agree with that approach.

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SIMON BAILEY: It is not a blind belief.

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SIMON BAILEY: It's important the victim come forward

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SIMON BAILEY: knowing that they will be believed, but

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SIMON BAILEY: also knowing that thereafter there will be

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SIMON BAILEY: a completely impartial investigation.

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SIMON BAILEY: And I think that has to be step one.

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SIMON BAILEY: Step two: there needs to be,

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SIMON BAILEY: throughout the course of the investigation

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SIMON BAILEY: that the investigating officers, the

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SIMON BAILEY: investigating team, keep

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SIMON BAILEY: the victim survivor fully updated on

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SIMON BAILEY: progress. If they are saying they're going

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SIMON BAILEY: to call them at 11 o'clock tomorrow, they

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SIMON BAILEY: need to make that call.

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SIMON BAILEY: They need to keep them updated on the

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SIMON BAILEY: progress. And even if it's a call that says

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SIMON BAILEY: "there's nothing more I can tell you this amount

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SIMON BAILEY: of time, or there are no new updates", but

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SIMON BAILEY: just that engagement is so, so

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SIMON BAILEY: important.

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SIMON BAILEY: And then, as the investigation progresses

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SIMON BAILEY: and they get to the point of the Crown

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SIMON BAILEY: Prosecution Service making that decision,

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SIMON BAILEY: my personal view is and it's so important

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SIMON BAILEY: that the Crown Prosecution Service should

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SIMON BAILEY: be making the decisions based about — a

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SIMON BAILEY: decision to charge or not — based upon

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SIMON BAILEY: the evidence that's in front of them.

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SIMON BAILEY: And they shouldn't be taking a bookmaker's

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SIMON BAILEY: approach. It shouldn't be based upon what's

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SIMON BAILEY: the likelihood here?

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SIMON BAILEY: If there is evidence there of abuse, then

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SIMON BAILEY: that evidence should be being put before a

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SIMON BAILEY: jury for a jury then to decide.

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SIMON BAILEY: And then the final element for me has got

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SIMON BAILEY: to be that the criminal justice system, at

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SIMON BAILEY: this moment in time, is taking too long to

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SIMON BAILEY: deal with these cases.

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SIMON BAILEY: The statistics are there in the public

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SIMON BAILEY: domain, the number of days it is taking for

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SIMON BAILEY: the moment of report to charge, then to

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SIMON BAILEY: a trial. We have got to speed up the

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SIMON BAILEY: process, and we've got to be looking at the

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SIMON BAILEY: pilots that are taking place in terms of

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SIMON BAILEY: the dedicated sexual offending courts, I

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SIMON BAILEY: think that's really important, because the

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SIMON BAILEY: staff that are dealing with these cases,

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SIMON BAILEY: the court staff, the prosecutors, should be

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SIMON BAILEY: aware of the trauma that the victim has has

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SIMON BAILEY: suffered and they should be equipped to be

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SIMON BAILEY: able to deal with that.

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SIMON BAILEY: And the courtroom should not become a

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SIMON BAILEY: hostile environment for victims and

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SIMON BAILEY: survivors of of abuse.

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SIMON BAILEY: Yes, you have to go through the judicial

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SIMON BAILEY: process. I completely get that.

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SIMON BAILEY: But the bottom line is that it should be

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SIMON BAILEY: done in such a way that the court staff,

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SIMON BAILEY: the environment, appreciates the trauma of

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SIMON BAILEY: what's happened and they — the

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SIMON BAILEY: victims/survivors — should be afforded the

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SIMON BAILEY: appropriate level of support and the

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SIMON BAILEY: awareness as they go into it.

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SIMON BAILEY: And there are ways of being able to deal

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SIMON BAILEY: with that. And you'll be aware of the conversations

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SIMON BAILEY: that have taken place around the pre-recording

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SIMON BAILEY: of evidence and what that might look like.

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SIMON BAILEY: So I think that if we get those principles

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SIMON BAILEY: right, around belief, but not a blind

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SIMON BAILEY: belief; around the routine of keeping

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SIMON BAILEY: victim/survivors up to date and aware of

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SIMON BAILEY: the investigation as it goes; when the CPS

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SIMON BAILEY: are making the decisions, let's make sure

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SIMON BAILEY: it's a merits-based decision, not a

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SIMON BAILEY: bookmaker's decision; and let's then make

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SIMON BAILEY: sure that when a charge is made, that

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SIMON BAILEY: actually the judicial process is then

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SIMON BAILEY: cognisant of trauma that what is then the

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SIMON BAILEY: witness, the victim, the witness has then

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SIMON BAILEY: endured, and how you make the system

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SIMON BAILEY: as supportive as possible.

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PRODUCER: What steps would you take to make that system

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PRODUCER: more supportive?

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SIMON BAILEY: I think the key thing is that the

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SIMON BAILEY: specialists working within those courts

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SIMON BAILEY: needs to be trauma-informed.

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SIMON BAILEY: They need to have that training.

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SIMON BAILEY: Specialist, independent sexual violence

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SIMON BAILEY: advisors need to be made available

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SIMON BAILEY: to the victims as well.

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SIMON BAILEY: And I think that's really important that

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SIMON BAILEY: they understand that. And that when you are

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SIMON BAILEY: then dealing within that, in that

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SIMON BAILEY: particular court setting, you need to make

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SIMON BAILEY: sure that the support is right

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SIMON BAILEY: there for the victims; that the staff

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SIMON BAILEY: understand, that they have the right

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SIMON BAILEY: support, have an appreciation of what

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SIMON BAILEY: those victim/survivors have been exposed

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SIMON BAILEY: to, what what it's been like for them, the

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SIMON BAILEY: courage that they have had to to come

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SIMON BAILEY: forward and report it.

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SIMON BAILEY: And, on the back of that, you then create a

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SIMON BAILEY: very, very different environment.

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PRODUCER: Finally, is there any specific advice you would

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PRODUCER: give to professionals working across the

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PRODUCER: criminal justice system — in policing, in the

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PRODUCER: courtroom — on how to respond to the

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PRODUCER: IICSA findings?

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SIMON BAILEY: I think the the most important thing

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SIMON BAILEY: for me, having operated on

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SIMON BAILEY: the policing side of the criminal justice

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SIMON BAILEY: system for 35 years, is

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SIMON BAILEY: to realise that you are not just dealing

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SIMON BAILEY: with a case number.

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SIMON BAILEY: You are dealing with a person.

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SIMON BAILEY: You're dealing with a victim.

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SIMON BAILEY: And that's why recommendation 14

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SIMON BAILEY: of the inquiry talks about the

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SIMON BAILEY: importance of compliance with the Victims'

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SIMON BAILEY: code. And I think that is

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SIMON BAILEY: so important. There needs to

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SIMON BAILEY: be further work done around

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SIMON BAILEY: that, and a joint inspection regarding

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SIMON BAILEY: compliance with the Victims' Code.

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SIMON BAILEY: There are some gaps and I think IICSA has

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SIMON BAILEY: identified gaps.

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SIMON BAILEY: There needs to be a review to look at

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SIMON BAILEY: the whole systems approach to the criminal

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SIMON BAILEY: justice response of what is taking

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SIMON BAILEY: place and the, you know, the recommendation

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SIMON BAILEY: is clear.

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SIMON BAILEY: The inspectorates carry out that regular

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SIMON BAILEY: joint inspection on victims' issues,

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SIMON BAILEY: because actually it's really important that

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SIMON BAILEY: the the victim/survivors are made

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SIMON BAILEY: to feel that

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SIMON BAILEY: they are being treated as a person rather

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SIMON BAILEY: than just another case that's going through

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SIMON BAILEY: the court system.

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PRODUCER: During our conversations, both Ian and Simon

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PRODUCER: mentioned the Victims' Code.

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PRODUCER: Recommendation 14 of the IICSA final report

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PRODUCER: asks the UK government to arrange for a joint

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PRODUCER: inspection of the compliance with the Victims'

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PRODUCER: Code in relation to victims and survivors of

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PRODUCER: child sexual abuse.

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PRODUCER: Here's Ian Critchley again to briefly explain

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PRODUCER: what the Victims' Code is and how it protects

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PRODUCER: children.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: The Victims' Code was brought in 2005.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: It's a statutory mechanism: the rights of

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IAN CRITCHLEY: all victims that needs to be delivered by

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IAN CRITCHLEY: criminal justice partners, and I've

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IAN CRITCHLEY: touched on some of those key rights

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IAN CRITCHLEY: in terms of referral to support; the

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IAN CRITCHLEY: victims being kept updated on

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IAN CRITCHLEY: the investigation; being provided with

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IAN CRITCHLEY: information about the trial and

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IAN CRITCHLEY: compensation; being informed about the

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IAN CRITCHLEY: outcomes and any, obviously, appeal.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: But also how an offender is being managed,

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IAN CRITCHLEY: if they are sentenced to a custodial

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IAN CRITCHLEY: sentence, again, there are rights to be

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IAN CRITCHLEY: informed of release around it.

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IAN CRITCHLEY: Being informed about

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IAN CRITCHLEY: therapeutic and counselling opportunities;

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IAN CRITCHLEY: again a myth

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IAN CRITCHLEY: that the police has perpetuated in the

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IAN CRITCHLEY: past where we have almost prevented

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IAN CRITCHLEY: young people and children receiving

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IAN CRITCHLEY: therapy and counselling, saying it will

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IAN CRITCHLEY: harm any criminal trial — it

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IAN CRITCHLEY: doesn't. We need to deal carefully with,

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IAN CRITCHLEY: obviously, any third-party material, but

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IAN CRITCHLEY: there is good process in place around

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IAN CRITCHLEY: that. And of course, within the Victims'

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IAN CRITCHLEY: Code, knowledge and use of special

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IAN CRITCHLEY: measures as well. So a really, really

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IAN CRITCHLEY: important piece of legislation

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IAN CRITCHLEY: for us, particularly when it comes to how

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IAN CRITCHLEY: we deal with child victims.

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PRODUCER: And I asked Simon to explain what gaps there

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PRODUCER: are in the Victim's Code.

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SIMON BAILEY: I think probably the most the most

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SIMON BAILEY: important thing is — and I know IICSA were

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SIMON BAILEY: aware of this — is the concerns around

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SIMON BAILEY: access to special measures and how actually

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SIMON BAILEY: the quality of witnesses' evidence

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SIMON BAILEY: to the court is enhanced by affording them

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SIMON BAILEY: access to special measures.

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SIMON BAILEY: So again, I think it's all picked up in

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SIMON BAILEY: that compliance with the Victims' Code.

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SIMON BAILEY: The code is not being consistently

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SIMON BAILEY: applied and followed.

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SIMON BAILEY: There were concerns around access to

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SIMON BAILEY: special measures, which were all designed

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SIMON BAILEY: around improving the quality of the

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SIMON BAILEY: victim's evidence to the court.

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SIMON BAILEY: So, that needs to be to be looked at.

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SIMON BAILEY: And, I believe in June of last

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SIMON BAILEY: year, the government responded to the

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SIMON BAILEY: consultation and talked about enshrining

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SIMON BAILEY: the Victims' Code into law.

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SIMON BAILEY: So again, I think that's a positive step

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SIMON BAILEY: forward.

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PRODUCER: Adjacent to the changes around limitation are

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PRODUCER: the recommendations on making amends to victims

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PRODUCER: and survivors.

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PRODUCER: These include changes to the Criminal Injuries

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PRODUCER: Compensation Scheme and setting up a single

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PRODUCER: redress scheme.

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PRODUCER: I asked Tomi Ogundele, one of the lawyers

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PRODUCER: within the NSPCC specialising in child

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PRODUCER: protection law, to outline the proposed changes

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PRODUCER: to redress.

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TOMI OGUNDELE: So when it comes to redress: currently, if

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TOMI OGUNDELE: an individual was abused as a child in

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TOMI OGUNDELE: England and Wales, there are three ways

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TOMI OGUNDELE: they can seek compensation.

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TOMI OGUNDELE: This is by making a legal claim against

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TOMI OGUNDELE: their abuser in the civil court; through

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TOMI OGUNDELE: the criminal court, if their abuser is

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TOMI OGUNDELE: convicted; or from the Criminal Injuries

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TOMI OGUNDELE: Compensation Authority.

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TOMI OGUNDELE: There was acknowledgement in IICSA's final

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TOMI OGUNDELE: report that victims and survivors were

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TOMI OGUNDELE: dissatisfied with the processes of civil

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TOMI OGUNDELE: litigation and criminal compensation,

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TOMI OGUNDELE: and that they had had negative experiences

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TOMI OGUNDELE: with seeking redress.

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TOMI OGUNDELE: So the inquiry recommends that the UK

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TOMI OGUNDELE: government establishes a single redress

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TOMI OGUNDELE: scheme in England and Wales, taking

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TOMI OGUNDELE: into account devolved responsibilities.

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TOMI OGUNDELE: The recommendation outlines who would be

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TOMI OGUNDELE: eligible to apply. So essentially, victims

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TOMI OGUNDELE: and survivors of child sexual abuse and

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TOMI OGUNDELE: exploitation.

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TOMI OGUNDELE: There is a requirement that there must be

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TOMI OGUNDELE: clear connection to state or non-state

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TOMI OGUNDELE: institutions in England and Wales.

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TOMI OGUNDELE: There would be a deduction of any previous

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TOMI OGUNDELE: award from any payments under the scheme.

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TOMI OGUNDELE: And finally, applicants where their civil

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TOMI OGUNDELE: claims were previously rejected would be

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TOMI OGUNDELE: excluded from applying.

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TOMI OGUNDELE: The scheme should provide payments to

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TOMI OGUNDELE: eligible applicants through a two tier

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TOMI OGUNDELE: system based on a fixed flat rate

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TOMI OGUNDELE: recognition payment, with the option to

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TOMI OGUNDELE: apply for a second tier payment.

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TOMI OGUNDELE: The application process must be accessible

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TOMI OGUNDELE: and straightforward, should run for five

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TOMI OGUNDELE: years, and should be funded by central and

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TOMI OGUNDELE: local government, with voluntary

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TOMI OGUNDELE: contributions sought from non-state

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TOMI OGUNDELE: institutions.

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TOMI OGUNDELE: The redress scheme is not a substitute for

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TOMI OGUNDELE: criminal or civil justice systems, and it

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TOMI OGUNDELE: does not replace the Criminal Injuries

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TOMI OGUNDELE: Compensation Authority.

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PRODUCER: Thanks to Tomi Ogundele, Simon Bailey and

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PRODUCER: Ian Critchley.

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PRODUCER: And thank you for listening to the

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PRODUCER: Recommendations for Change podcast series from

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PRODUCER: NSPCC Learning.

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PRODUCER: In this series, we've explored the

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PRODUCER: recommendations laid out by the Independent

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PRODUCER: Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and how

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PRODUCER: they might contribute to a more robust, more

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PRODUCER: effective child protection system in the UK.

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PRODUCER: For more information about any of the specific

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PRODUCER: topics covered in the series, we recommend

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PRODUCER: reading the full IICSA final report.

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PRODUCER: You can also find more safeguarding and child

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PRODUCER: protection resources on the NSPCC Learning

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PRODUCER: website.

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PRODUCER: If you've been affected by any of the issues

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PRODUCER: raised in this podcast, you can reach out to

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PRODUCER: the NSPCC Helpline for support, call

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PRODUCER: 0808 800 5000

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PRODUCER: or email help@nspcc.org.uk.

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PRODUCER: This podcast series was produced in Autumn

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PRODUCER: 2023.

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PRODUCER: All information was correct at the time of

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PRODUCER: recording, but the world of child protection is

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PRODUCER: ever-changing.

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PRODUCER: To stay up to date, visit the NSPCC Learning

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PRODUCER: website at nspcc.org.uk/learning.

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