Government Backing for Alexis Jay to Stay in Charge of Child Abuse Inquiry

Care Appointments
November 21, 2016

http://www.careappointments.co.uk/care-news/england/item/40834-government-backing-for-alexis-jay-to-stay-in-charge-of-child-abuse-inquiry

The Government has backed Professor Alexis Jay to lead the troubled child sex abuse inquiry amid growing calls by victims and MPs for her to go.

Labour MP Chuka Umunna has called for her to be removed while the Shirley Oaks Survivors Association (Sosa) quit the probe amid criticisms that Prof Jay is an "uninspiring leader".

But speaking during an urgent question in the Commons on the inquiry, Home Office minister Sarah Newton said: "I am confident, as is the Prime Minister, as is the Home Secretary, in the ability of Professor Jay to lead this inquiry."

Prof Jay became the fourth chairwoman to lead the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) after her predecessor Dame Lowell Goddard quit in August.