UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
The new head of an inquiry into historical child sex abuse has said she is willing to discuss the inclusion of Northern Ireland in the inquiry.
On Wednesday, Justice Lowell Goddard told the Home Affairs Select Committee she would raise it with the Home Secretary Theresa May if she felt it was appropriate.
Ms May has already said the inquiry will be confined to England and Wales.
But there have been a number of calls for Kincora Boys’ Home to be included.
Three senior care staff at the east Belfast children’s home were jailed in 1981 for abusing 11 boys in their care.
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