Seeking legal justice for limited rights in the UK care system with former Investigator Ann Beswick

And in particular, the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, which took place between 2014 and and 2022.

That project re-interviewed around about 7,000 victims.

So that's 7,000 people who have previously reported sexual abuse, child sexual abuse.

It was run by Alexis Jay.

There were 19 reports, 15 investigations, and it cost an extremely large amount of money.

and made a considerable number of recommendations, none of which have been implemented.

And yet there is now a move to bring in yet another public inquiry with regards to the child sexual exploitation cases.

So I have Concerns about that, one, because you've got 7,000 people who have all had expectations.

Because if you say to a member of the public there's going to be a public inquiry, people think, right, that's it, because we haven't possibly had redress during the courts, during the criminal justice system.

But we may get redress.

Things may change.

by way of a public inquiry.

And I think the problem there is that it's for a start it's managing people's expectations because very often with public inquiries they do take a long time, it costs a lot of money and often the recommendations very ugly don't be taken on board or they fall by the wayside quite quickly.

And I think the sad thing about this is that it was a very, very thorough inquiry.

And I just feel terribly sad for the victims who had expectations where there is nothing tangible that can be seen to have changed.

So why do yet another inquiry where you're going to be interviewing even more victims? But I think there's also a few issues there in that It seems to be something of an undercurrent which possibly fits with some of the narrative within society today, whereby they want to focus on a particular ethnicity within a community.

And I actually think that's really dangerous.

I think to sort of, you know, it's, we talked on, when you were doing your postgraduate studies and we talked about the archetype of sex offender and it was sort of little old man in a dirty mate coat.

But in actual fact, that's, people don't have, they don't fit a sex path.

You can't walk down the street and go, there's a sex offender.

Oh, he's a sex offender.

That very fact that for most of us, we will probably know somebody that's a sex offender.

without being aware that that's what they are and it just concerns me that and I think yet it's important that this systemic institutional failings that happened from lots of the young people involved with child sexual exploitation but let's deal with the recommendations that we've already got some of many of which will actually impact upon the child sexual exploitation as well and so that's That's my bad apple.