UNITED KINGDOM
Sean O’Neill, Chief Reporter
October 18 2016
The Times
The public inquiry into child abuse will never be completed unless it is restructured, its chairwoman said yesterday.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) will move away from the format of the traditional public hearings to complete its work within a reasonable time and budget.
Alexis Jay said claims that the inquiry’s remit was too big were “founded on an assumption that we must seek to replicate a traditional public inquiry in respect of each of the thousands of institutions that fall within our remit”. She added: “We will do so for some, but we would never finish if we did it for all.”
She did not say which inquiries would receive the full treatment, with witnesses being questioned in open sessions, or the format under which other investigations would be conducted.
The previous structure proposed as many as 25 separate investigations under the umbrella of the inquiry.
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