Abuse Inquiry ‘can Never End without Restructure’

By Sean O’Neill
The Times
October 18, 2016

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/abuse-inquiry-can-never-end-without-restructure-2ldhzdft3

Alexis Jay is the fourth person to lead the inquiry since it was set up in 2014

The public inquiry into child abuse will never be completed unless it is restructured, its chairwoman said yesterday.

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) will move away from the format of the traditional public hearings to complete its work within a reasonable time and budget.

Alexis Jay said claims that the inquiry’s remit was too big were “founded on an assumption that we must seek to replicate a traditional public inquiry in respect of each of the thousands of institutions that fall within our remit”. She added: “We will do so for some, but we would never finish…