UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
The Press Association
Experts involved in the Government’s troubled child sexual abuse inquiry will appear before MPs today while councils hold a summit looking at how to protect youngsters.
The inquiry set up by Home Secretary Theresa May has stalled following the resignations of the two people appointed to chair it and uncertainty about how it will be granted extra powers.
Two members of the inquiry panel and the body’s expert adviser Professor Alexis Jay, who wrote the damning report on sexual exploitation in Rotherham, will appear before the home affairs select committee.
Mrs May revealed in a letter last month that she was considering standing down the panel in favour of a royal commission or a new inquiry on statutory terms.
As well as Prof Jay, the MPs will hear from panel members D rusilla Sharpling and Professor Jenny Pearce as part of their investigation into the inquiry, which is without a chairman following the resignations of Baroness Butler-Sloss and Dame Fiona Woolf after each became entangled in allegations of conflict of interest.
Meanwhile the Local Government Association (LGA) is holding a high-level summit to take stock of issues highlighted over the past few months, review progress in tackling historic weaknesses and determine what further action is required to protect children in future.
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