UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent 08 Apr 2015
The Government’s child sex abuse inquiry is facing further turmoil after survivors and campaigners condemned the new set-up as “discriminatory”.
In a letter delivered to the Home Office more than 500 signatories voiced their strong objections to a decision by Theresa May, the Home Secretary, to exclude survivors from the inquiry panel.
Mrs May went back to the drawing board last month after a series of false starts and set up a new four-strong panel to hear the inquiry alongside Justice Lowell Goddard, a senior New Zealand judge.
Unlike the first panel, it did not include any adult victims of sexual abuse and a separate victims and survivors consultative panel is due to be created to advise the main inquiry.
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