UNITED KINGDOM
International Business Times
By Ewan Palmer
July 9, 2015
The government’s inquiry into historic child abuse has promised to investigate everywhere from the “corridors of power in Westminster” to children’s homes in the poorest parts of the country after it finally launched following an uneasy start.
Chair Justice Lowell Goddard said the “largest and most ambitious” inquiry Britain has ever seen has promised no one will be allowed to obstruct the investigation into child abuse and promised to name all individuals alleged to have been involved.
The inquiry has formally been opened just over a year after it was announced by home secretary Theresa May following a stuttering start due to the resignation of two previous chairs over concerns about their links to the establishment.
Goddard said as well as looking into allegations of a cover-up of a paedophile ring at Westminster, the inquiry will also look at religious organisation, schools and other education organisations, the police at other institutions such as the NHS and the BBC.
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