UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
The chair of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has rejected calls for it to be scrapped or scaled back, saying its scope is “a virtue”.
Prof Alexis Jay said the broad nature of the inquiry would allow it to recommend “fundamental changes”.
None of its 13 separate investigations will be dropped, a report said, but it may stop short of examining whether the late peer Lord Janner abused children.
The inquiry has announced it will only hold four public hearings next year.
The announcements were made in a report following an internal review, ordered by Prof Jay after her appointment in August.
The report also set the troubled inquiry’s timetable for 2017.
The child sexual abuse inquiry so far
Visible progress needed in inquiry
Who is Prof Alexis Jay?
Prof Jay said she planned to make recommendations in an interim report in 2018 and vowed to make “substantial progress” by 2020.
However, IICSA officials refused to say when the inquiry would end.
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