UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By JAMES TAPSFIELD, POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE and TIM SCULTHORPE, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE
Professor Alexis Jay has been appointed to head up the troubled inquiry into child sex abuse, it was announced today.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd said Ms Jay, who wrote a key report into abuse in Rotherham in 2014, would be promoted from the inquiry’s advisory panel to take over from New Zealand judge Dame Lowell Goddard.
The move is intended to ensure some sort of continuity in the massive £100 million Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), after Dame Lowell dramatically resigned as chair last week with no warning.
Ms Jay becomes the fourth woman to take the helm at the beleaguered probe which has been running in various guises for two years but has so far heard little evidence despite racking up huge bills.
Home Affairs Committee chairman Keith Vaz today warned it must be ‘fourth time lucky’ for the vast inquiry, which has already cost taxpayers £18million and is due to draw together a staggering 13 different probes – a task branded ‘unmanageable’ by former DPP Lord Macdonald last week.
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