Truth Project Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

Date published: 27 July 2017


The Truth Project’s Pop-Up Office is in Rochdale until Friday 28 July. However, if you missed this window, you can still have your chance to share your experiences.

The Truth Project Sessions are still open and ongoing, and would like to hear from as many survivors/victims as possible. The team will arrange and pay for you to travel via taxi to their Liverpool Office, which is only an hour away, with full support.

If you were failed by an institution, The Truth Project gives individuals a unique opportunity to share your experiences of child sexual abuse in confidence with the Inquiry.

Designed in consultation with victims and survivors to provide a supportive environment in which to speak out, you are in control, and will be able to decide how much detail to go into and how long you would like the session to last for. You will be supported throughout the process and may bring a companion.

Survivors have provided feedback on the excellent support they have received at the event and the real value of voicing their experiences and opinions, to better protect children in the future.

You are also invited to suggest what can be done to stop children being sexually abused in the future.

In October, the Inquiry will publish a report which will feature the experiences of victims and survivors from the Truth Project. Your experiences, published anonymously, will help shape the Inquiry's recommendations to Parliament to help keep children safe in the future.

Over 800 victims and survivors of child sexual abuse have now come forward to the Truth Project across England and Wales.

If you would like to book a place and have your say, please email the North West Booking team at:

northwestinquiryoffice@iicsa.org.uk

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