Child Abuse Inquiry Is Independent, Insists Chief

By Sean O’Neill
The Times
September 9, 2016

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/independence-challenge-over-abuse-inquiry-ttxbhcx32

Professor Alexis Jay said that the 155 staff at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse were “bound together by a commitment to make this inquiry a success”

Almost a quarter of staff of the national child abuse inquiry have been recruited from the Home Office, its chairwoman disclosed yesterday, as she tried to allay fears that the body was not independent of the government.

Alexis Jay said that the 155 staff at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) were “bound together by a commitment to make this inquiry a success”. She added: “Their duty and loyalty is to the inquiry, not to any government department.”

Two victims’ groups, the Shirley Oaks Survivors, which represents hundreds of people abused at children’s homes in Lambeth, and White…