UNITED KINGDOM
The Guardian
Sandra Laville
Thursday 6 October 2016
A comprehensive review of the way the independent child abuse inquiry operates is near completion and will be published within weeks, it is understood.
Prof Alexis Jay, the fourth chair of the troubled £100m inquiry, is understood to have come to conclusions about how to move forward after analysing the multiple investigations and modules that make up the inquiry’s work.
Jay took over the inquiry in August following the sudden departure of Dame Lowell Goddard. She immediately set about reviewing its vast scale and its approach to its investigations. In a letter to victims last month she said of her review: “My aim is to explore new ways to deliver the inquiry’s investigative work while remaining faithful to its terms of reference.
“I will write to you again when the review process has concluded to tell you about any changes that we propose to make and to invite your views.”
Claims that Jay was going to alter the remit of the inquiry, which was set up by Theresa May when she was home secretary, were dismissed by Amber Rudd, May’s successor.
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