UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
By Tom Symonds
Home affairs correspondent, BBC News
Child abuse is a deeply difficult challenge for all institutions. It is hard to prevent, detect, investigate, and, report on.
So no-one expected the work of what is sure to be Britain’s biggest public inquiry to be easy.
But the challenges of trying to get it going will be of interest to students of public policy for decades to come.
The very fact that it is on its fourth chairwoman means that all involved have given up the usual shorthand of referring to it using the name of the person running it.
It is no longer the “Goddard Inquiry”, or the “Jay Inquiry”.
Now, it is simply IICSA, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
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