UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
By Tom Symonds
Home Affairs correspondent
The independent panel set up to support the planned public inquiry into historical child abuse could be disbanded, the BBC understands.
Home Secretary Theresa May has written to panel members saying three options to give the inquiry full statutory powers are being considered.
Only one option does not require the panel to be disbanded.
A Home Office spokesman said Mrs May wanted to balance making progress “with the need to get this right”.
The panel, which has started work, still has nobody to chair it after the first two nominations stood down.
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