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Victims of Crime (Rights, Entitlements, and Notification of Child Sexual Abuse) Bill [HL]

A Bill to make provision for specifying new statutory rights and entitlements for victims of crime under the victims’ code of practice; to require elected local policing bodies to assess victims’ services; to increase the duties of the Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses; to grant victims the right to request a review of a decision not to prosecute; to establish reviews into homicides where no criminal charge has been made; to create an obligation on professions to notify cases of possible victims of child sexual abuse; and for connected purposes

In progress Current stage: 2nd reading (Lords)

The story so farThe Victims of Crime (Rights, Entitlements, and Notification of Child Sexual Abuse) Bill was introduced in the House of Lords on 28 October 2019 by Baroness Brinton (Liberal Democrat). It is now at second reading in the House of Lords. Second reading is the first debate on the overall principle of the bill; if the bill clears it, detailed committee scrutiny follows.

Progress through Parliament

  1. 1st reading Lords 28 Oct 2019
  2. 2nd reading Lords Current

Source: the official bill page. Last updated 8 Nov 2019.