Sara Payne was appointed an MBE for services to child protection

Mrs Payne, whose daughter Sarah was murdered by a convicted paedophile, was named Victims' Champion in January.



She wants victims to be given more help to deal with the impact of crime and says they need greater clarity about the jail terms offenders will serve.
The government has pledged to set up a Victims' Service in England and Wales.
Mrs Payne told the BBC: "In every single area you get treated in a different way. What we need to do is make sure that everybody has access to the same system that everyone else does.

One-to-one care
"It's not just about courts though. If we step back from that, 97% of people who report a crime never see a courtroom, so we need to think about what is justice for these people.
"I think we are not inclusive of people - we don't ask people what they need and we really need to start doing that at an early stage."
At the Labour conference in September, Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced that £11m was being made available over the next two years to create a service offering one-to-one care and support for relatives of murder victims.

He said the National Victims Service would be launched next year and would eventually be expanded to offer practical, emotional and financial support to all victims of crime.
Mrs Payne will publish a report on Thursday after spending nine months speaking to victims and witnesses and studying front line services.

Sarah Payne was murdered by paedophile Roy Whiting in 2000

The BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw says her main conclusion is that the justice system needs to be "reshaped".
The report will say that at present, justice is defined as "catching the criminal and protecting the public", and victims and witnesses feel they are included simply to "aid" that process.
Mrs Payne will recommend that in future delivering justice should be about supporting the victim to overcome the impact of the crime so they can get on with their lives.
She is also expected to call for more transparency in sentencing so that victims know exactly how long offenders will serve in prison.
Mrs Payne's eight-year-old daughter was murdered in 2000 by known paedophile Roy Whiting.
Since then she has campaigned for a so-called "Sarah's Law", giving parents the right to know about convicted sex offenders living near them.
The campaign has resulted in pilot schemes in four police forces that allow parents or guardians to check whether people who have access to their children are convicted sex offenders.

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