He said the new system would protect both a free press and the victims of the abuse of press power, who would have proper redress and a complaints system with teeth under an independent body that would ensure the press no longer "marks its own homework".
Some of the women have said if they do not get proper redress from a state which was responsible for being abandoned in these institutions.
We expect the industry to establish a mechanism or independent self-regulation, which delivers proper redress for individuals, as set out in the royal charter, and agreed by all parties in parliament".
It must become a public and complainant-facing organisation, adopting an ombudsman type of service, with the focus on proper redress for the public.
E.ON has today taken a good step by accepting responsibility for its actions and putting proper redress in place".
The report by Sir Bruce Keogh recommends better regulation, better training and proper redress if things go wrong.
Even then it largely fails to deliver proper redress and serial offenders have no incentive to change.
A lot of the reporting of the Rennard allegations will have passed people by, but I hope if young women do read it and a man does try to exert their authority or touch them inappropriately, it will give them courage to report it and get proper redress.
Last year, in The Sleepwalkers: How Europe went to War in 1914, the Cambridge historian Christopher Clark argued that Serbia was a rogue state whose government knew perfectly well what the assassin Princip was up to; that Austria was quite entitled to seek proper redress; and that, if the Germans were imperialistic and paranoid, so were the other nations.
The actions that any parliamentary committee have are limited in this regard but it'd certainly be a matter for the Speaker and no doubt if it was shown that he had misled parliament, he would want to apologise and make proper redress".
Thompson, who last year went public with allegations of his abuse at the hands of senior diocesan figures, says change will be slow until church "hearts and minds" are persuaded child safety is of the highest order and that victims need proper redress.
