women and equalities committee, child on child abuse, rape, schools, government inactionWhy is the government not acting with more urgency?

Parliament’s Women and Equalities Committee questioned Equalities Ministers Nick Gibb MP and Anne Milton MP earlier this month about what is being done to ensure girls are protected from abuse in schools and able to access their right to education.

In the session on 11 October, members of the Women and Equalities Committee referred to a letter from the Department for Education sent to a solicitor about the delays in government action since the Committee warned of the sexual abuse girls suffer in schools in its report in September 2016.

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