UNITED KINGDOM
Sky News
By Tom Parmenter, Sky News Correspondent
A year and two days after it was announced, the inquiry into child sexual abuse in England and Wales will formally open later.[July 9]
At 10am New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard will outline the guiding principles that will shape what is expected to be the biggest inquiry ever seen in the UK.
It was set up by Home Secretary Theresa May following child abuse scandals that rocked various institutions including political parties, Government departments in Westminster, the police, churches, schools, children’s homes, the military and many others.
Survivors groups and individual survivors have been consulted and will give evidence as part of the process but the early stages have been dogged by in-fighting and controversy.
The first two women appointed to lead the inquiry, Dame Butler-Sloss and Dame Fiona Woolf, both had to step down because of their links to the British establishment which meant survivors could not trust them to be impartial.
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