Olivia Robey is the Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Policy Lead for the Centre for Social Justice’s Child Sexual Abuse Commission. She has previously advised the Anti-Slavery Commissioner and the Home Secretary on crime, safeguarding and vulnerability.
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The Crown Prosecution Service’s latest grim statistics show that, despite the increasing number of police recorded rapes over the past five years, the prosecution rate has reduced. This state of affairs, has been branded as the ‘decriminalisation of rape’ by the Victim’s Commissioner Dame Vera Baird QC. And the data’s fine print also reveals a heart-breaking truth: the victims
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Domestic abuse services are braced for an avalanche of new cases as a result of social distancing. Of these cases, not all have or will be physically violent – instead, Women’s Aid reports a significant proportion of cases in which access to money was used as a form of control. In the government’s Domestic Abuse
