The Child Protection Authority is a proposed government agency of the United Kingdom.
The creation of a Child Protection Authority was one of the recommendations of the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), published in 2022. [1] [2]
A proposal that the creation of the agency be made a statutory requirement as part of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill was voted down in a vote in the House of Commons in February 2025. [3]
In April 2025, Jess Philips, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, announced that work would start on creating the agency. [1] [4] Opposition politicians criticised the government for not having acted on the IICSA's recommendations sooner. [1]
As part of the recommendations made by Louise Casey in the report of the National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, published in June 2025, the Child Protection Agency is planned to be one of the organizations responsible for ensuring inter-agency collaboration against child abuse. [5] The government has stated that it intends to implement all of the recommendations of the audit report. [6]
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