KEIR STARMER, then Director of Public Prosecutions, stated in January 2013, "Many people feel that for sexual offences, where it is one person's word against another's and there is no or little scientific or other evidence to support the allegation(s); no prosecution should be brought."

CHARLES MOORE, former editor of The Daily Telegraph, noted that the NSPCC report "Giving Victims A Voice, contains no actual evidence, in a sense which a court would recognise." Moore commented that it "undermines justice by treating allegations as facts", noting the report's admission that "the information has not been corroborated" and viewing its contents as "not a contribution to the truth". He did not feel it right to overcompensate for previously dismissive attitudes to such an extent "that every accusation must be considered true". Moore concluded that it was an "uninformative and self-righteous report."

SPIKED, criticised the report by describing it as "the peak of 'victim centred' justice" and lacking in objectivity. In the article, "Moral Panics, Jimmy Savile and Social Work: a 21st century morality tale" Spiked said, "Giving Victims a Voice is full of scare-mongering, exaggeration and elision. As allegations are presented as 'facts' and accusations become 'offences', held to be incontrovertibly true".

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