In search for a head of the CSA inquiry
A lot of us have waited a long time to be heard. To have this inquiry, we are forced to accept a chair that many feel is compromised from the start by involving people who are one way or another linked to people of interest. It is not good enough to say “like it or lump it”. We want and deserve better than that.
It would be good to have a comment from Woolf or the Home Office, good manners. All the while there is silence, survivors are insulted, frustrated and stressed.
Link to politics.co.uk article summarising background to calls for CSA inquiry (6.11.2012):
http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2012/11/06/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-tory-paedophile-scanda
Link to David Burrows’s post at DBFamily Law blog on the Right to a Fair Inquiry (10.10.2014):
http://dbfamilylaw.wordpress.com/
Link to House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee hearing evidence on historic child abuse from Fiona Woolf, Chair of the independent inquiry into historical child sexual abuse (21.10.2014):
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=16146
Link to Theresa May written ministerial statement concerning the appointment of panel members to the independent inquiry panel of experts which will consider whether public bodies and other, non-state, institutions have taken seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse. Sharon Evans, Ivor Frank, Dame Moira Gibb, Professor Jenny Pearce OBE, Dru Sharpling CBE and Professor Terence Stephenson, will join Graham Wilmer MBE and Barbara Hearn OBE as panel members for the Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Ben Emmerson QC is counsel to the inquiry, and Professor Alexis Jay OBE will serve as an expert adviser. (21.10.2014):
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/child-sexual-abuse-woolf-inquiry