Revoke charity status of institutions failing to sign up to sexual abuse redress – inquiry

Parliamentary committee says scheme ‘may never be accepted by survivors’ unless significant changes are made

Institutions that refuse to sign up to the national redress scheme for child sexual abuse victims should be penalised and have their charity status revoked, a parliamentary committee has found.

The redress scheme “may never be properly accepted by survivors as a fair scheme” unless significant changes were made, the damning report said.

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