New Zealand judge to chair Child Sex Abuse Inquiry

ITV
February 4, 2015

http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-02-04/child-abuse-campaigner-this-is-a-positive-day-for-survivors/

Former Child Protection manager Peter McKelvie

The chair of the new Child Sex Abuse Inquiry has been named as New Zealand High Court judge Justice Lowell Goddard.

She will head up a new panel after Home Secretary Theresa May dissolved the existing inquiry, following a series of criticisms and the resignation of two previous chairs.

Former Child Protection manager Peter McKelvie has welcomed the appointment of New Zealand judge Lowell Goddard to lead the Child Sex Abuse Inquiry.

Speaking after a meeting at the Home Office, he said it was a "positive day for survivors" and that "the cement has been put down so whichever government comes in at the next election, the [inquiry] process will go on."