The UK Child Sex Abuse People’s Tribunal (UKCSAPT) has found that Governmental institutions failed to provide survivors of sexual abuse with meaningful opportunities for either healing or justice, and that the mental health needs of survivors in the UK are not being met.
UKCSAPT was established by survivors of child sex abuse and members of civil society to investigate historic cases of institutional sex abuse.
The independent inquiry, led by a panel of four judges, listened to evidence spanning four decades from 20 survivors and eight witness experts. A common theme throughout these accounts showed that a series of institutional failures prevented abuse from being reported; and that there are clear links between children being rendered vulnerable by these failures and predatory abuse on an organised scale.