The Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), Professor Alexis Jay, has told the Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse that a “once in a lifetime” chance to introduce the recommendations made at the conclusion of the seven-year inquiry in 2022 to protect children is at risk of not happening, and warned that the failure to introduce mandatory reporting in England and Wales could also be used as an excuse for lack of action in Scotland, where the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, which has been running for nine years, has yet to conclude. (The Guardian)