Olivia Robey

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.

Child sexual abuse survivors are being let down

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