UNITED KINGDOM
Chronicle Live
5 February 2015 By Jonathan Walker
A long-awaited inquiry into historic claims of child abuse is likely to look at claims of widespread abuse at children’s homes in the North, the Home Secretary has said.
It follows assertions that an earlier inquiry into hundreds of allegations dating back to the 1960s, called Operation Rose, was a “whitewash”.
Home Secretary Theresa May has announced that a wide-ranging inquiry into historic child sex abuse is to be reconstituted under a new chair, New Zealand High Court judge Lowell Goddard, with tough new powers to compel witnesses to attend and provide evidence.
It means the investigation can finally get underway, following a series of delays since it was originally set up last July.
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