UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By REBECCA CAMBER CRIME CORRESPONDENT FOR THE DAILY MAIL
The future of the child abuse inquiry was plunged into uncertainty again last night as its fourth chairman signalled a scaling back of its remit.
Professor Alexis Jay, who took over from Dame Lowell Goddard in August, said it was unrealistic to hold a public inquiry-style hearing into all of the institutions where abuse is said to have occurred.
She said while the inquiry would endeavour to look at many institutions where youngsters were allegedly abused, it would be ‘impossible to do so for all of them’.
Professor Jay sought to appease victims by saying the inquiry remained ‘very interested in the past’ and promised to complete most of its work by the end of 2020.
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