By Brendan Cole
UNITED KINGDOM
International Business Times
September 6, 2016
The former chief who quit the national public inquiry into child sex abuse has criticised it as too big to succeed. Dame Lowell Goddard left under controversial circumstances after nearly a year in charge of the probe in which not a word of evidence was heard.
But the New Zealand judge said the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse needs to be “remodelled” as it is too unwieldy and under-funded to succeed.
According to a memo seen by the Times, Goddard has urged home secretary Amber Rudd to review the inquiry which stretches back six decades, is expected to take a 10 years and will cost around £100m.
She said that it should be scaled back to focus on the present and future protection of children and also criticised the inquiry’s staff for being inexperienced.
She wrote: “With the benefit of hindsight, or more realistically the benefit of experience, it is clear there is an inherent problem in the sheer scale and size of the inquiry (which its budget does not match) and therefore in its manageability.
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