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.
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