Sex Abuse Inquiry Could Exclude BBC and Savile

By Sean O’Neill
The Times
November 2, 2016

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/sex-abuse-inquiry-could-exclude-bbc-and-savile-k06sptzlz

The Independent Investigation into Child Sexual Abuse has abandoned proposals to look at the BBC and abusers such as Jimmy Savile

The public inquiry into child abuse in major institutions could drop its investigations into the BBC and the Jimmy Savile case under a review of its workload. The Independent Investigation into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has begun 13 investigations but said in a progress report yesterday that it will “commission new investigations only if we consider they are necessary”.

The inquiry, now chaired by Alexis Jay, had said that it would undertake 25 investigations under its remit to examine institutional child abuse in England and Wales. Those it has committed to carrying out include the cases of Lord Janner, the…