Analysis: A year on from damning report and little progress to show on child abuse claims
A year ago the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse released a report slamming the claims process as it stands and making a raft of recommendations. Post investigates the progress made since then.
It is a year on from the insurer child abuse claims dressing down, in which the civil and criminal claims processes were slammed as “hostile” and “baffling” – and, on the insurance side, there appears
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