UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
By Tom Symonds
Home affairs correspondent, BBC News
The inquiry into historical child abuse is likely to be the longest and most complex ever.
But right from the start there have been arguments about who should take on the task of delving into Britain’s darkest secrets, and how they should go about it.
When on 7 July 2014, Theresa May announced there would be a public inquiry into child abuse, she may have been excused for thinking an important item had been ticked off the governmental to-do list.
She had little alternative.
Since the Jimmy Savile scandal it has been clear that many men and women abused as children are no longer prepared to endure the silence that has hung over this issue for decades.
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