Campaigners claim no progress made with government on implementing recommendations until Elon Musk row

Campaigners met government officials months ago to urge them to implement recommendations from the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) in England and Wales, but said no progress had been made until recent days.

One campaigner who was present at the meeting with Home Office officials in September to ask why the recommendations had not been implemented accused the government of a “kneejerk reaction” and said it had been pushed into action by the political storm sparked by Elon Musk’s posts on X about grooming gangs. “We’ve been trying to get the government interested in implementing the recommendations for months and, lo and behold, Elon Musk turns up and something happens,” they said.