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Update following ministerial remarks on inclusion of Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation in new VAWG Strategy

We welcome the minister’s clear reassurance that the forthcoming Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy will include victims of child sexual abuse (CSA) and child sexual exploitation (CSE).

Jess Phillips MP in parliament on Tuesday, 2nd September:

There has been some reporting that the violence against women and girls strategy will not include child abuse victims and grooming gang victims. I can stand here and say that is utter rubbish; it absolutely will, and it will be published very shortly. Any delay is only out of my own perfectionism—I think that is what I will call it. This is a 10-year strategy that will last until at least the next Parliament, and it has to be right. Huge parts of it will absolutely be about support for victims.

The full transcript of the debate on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse can be seen here

TST’s CEO Fay Maxted OBE published a statement after a Sky News report on Friday, 15th August, revealing an internal Home Office document which says victims of child sexual exploitation are “not explicitly within the scope” of the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy being drafted by the government.

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