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Researching Reform: Child abuse inquiry – process and prejudice
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The large scale
inquiry into historic child abuse in England and Wales has gotten off to a rocky start having lost both chairs successively due to a string of concerning disclosures which tainted both Baroness Butler-Sloss and London Lord Mayor Fiona Woolf but what kind of inquiry is it and will it be able to make a meaningful impact for those children who have suffered at the hands of paedophiles in the UK?
In June 2014 over 120 MPs wrote to the Home Secretary Theresa May asking her to set up an investigation into the growing number of historic child abuse allegations in the
United Kingdom. The following month May announced that an Independent Panel Inquiry would be held which would “consider the extent to which State and non-State institutions have failed in their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation; to consider the extent to which those... Read the full article here.
