UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
Dozens of child abuse survivors have urged the government to scrap an inquiry into historical abuse and replace it with a more powerful body.
The call comes after a leaked letter from Theresa May told inquiry members their panel might be disbanded.
Peter Saunders, from National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said the move would be supported by the majority of survivors.
Labour’s Simon Danczuk said the inquiry so far had been an “utter mess”.
Mr Danczuk, who exposed child sex abuse allegations against former Liberal MP Cyril Smith, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that survivors would be “dismayed” by the progress of the inquiry – which was set up in July and has started work, but has no chairman.
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