UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
The historical child sex abuse inquiry in England and Wales must not “drag on” and will have achievable goals, its new chairwoman has said.
New Zealand High Court judge Lowell Goddard said she would run a “very effective” investigation so that it could protect children in the future.
The inquiry would have sex abuse victims at its “centre”, she said.
The independent inquiry into how public bodies dealt with allegations of child sex abuse may last until 2018.
She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that her first step on reaching the UK would be to set “clear objectives”.
“It is a very broad landscape, and the inquiry is very complex and multi-faceted, but it needs to be achievable as well,” she said.
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