UNITED KINGDOM
Telegraph
Martin Evans
7 August 2016
Professor Alexis Jay, who exposed the Rotherham sex abuse scandal, has emerged as the favourite to take over the Government’s chaotic child sex abuse inquiry.
The former social worker, who currently sits on the inquiry’s panel, is understood to be willing to consider taking on the role if approached by Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary.
Professor Jay is widely respected among survivor’s groups and having been brought up in a tenement in Edinburgh, by a single parent, has none of the establishment links that have tripped up previous heads.
The entire future of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse was thrown into doubt last week, when Dame Lowell Goddard became the third chairman to quit amid criticism over her commitment to the role.
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