Ratify Lanzarote Convention
IICSA · Interim Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse · Issued 25 April 2018 · Addressed to: UK Government
Government responseNo response yet
DeliveryNo statement from UK Government found
Recommendation, verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation, J
The Chair and Panel recommend that the UK government ratifies the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (the 'Lanzarote Convention') without further delay. They also recommend that ratification is followed, again without further delay, by action to implement the Lanzarote Convention. The Chair and Panel recommend that the Home Office, as the lead UK government department, publishes the timetable for ratifying the Lanzarote Convention and taking any additional steps required to make the UK fully compliant by June 2018.
IICSA, Interim Report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse · 25 Apr 2018 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
AI-generated evidence summary
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, summarising the response of the UK Government of 20 June 2018 on its recommendations page for the interim report as archived in October 2022, recorded that the government ratified the Lanzarote Convention on that date (The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Oct 2022). The record holds no update since the Inquiry's summary of October 2022 (The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Oct 2022).
Sources
AI-generated summary of the record on this page, checked by a second model and automatic checks, 26 Sep 2026.
Government response
●No formal government response recorded
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Delivery
No statement on delivery from UK Government has been found in the sources searched. This is separate from the response above.
What other bodies have found
●Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse · 6 Oct 2022
On 20 June 2018, the UK Government ratified the Lanzarote Convention.
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