UNITED KINGDOM
Sky News
New Zealand high court judge Justice Lowell Goddard has been named as the latest chair of the troubled child abuse inquiry.
Home Secretary Theresa May said in a statement to MPs that a new statutory inquiry will be established, meaning the current panel will be dissolved.
Current members have been encouraged to reapply for their roles, and the panel has been asked to produce a report on its work so far.
The terms of reference are also being looked at, meaning that the investigations could potentially go back beyond 1970.
However, Mrs May suggested the remit is unlikely to be extended beyond England and Wales
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