UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
By Tom Symonds
Home affairs correspondent, BBC News
Home Secretary Theresa May has faced calls for an inquiry into historical child abuse, which has been beset by problems, to be “re-started”. The inquiry, set up six months ago, remains without a leader, and there have been disagreements within the expert panel over its workings and its future.
Behind the scenes, there is now a bruising confrontation between the child abuse inquiry panel and one of its members, the children’s charity founder Sharon Evans, who was herself abused as a child.
She is furious that the government plans to disband the panel, and redesign the structure of the entire inquiry.
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