UNITED KINGDOM
The Times
Sean O’Neill, Chief Reporter
October 15 2016
The Times
The national inquiry into child abuse is to be scaled back next week in a desperate attempt to keep it on track.
Alexis Jay, chairwoman of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), is expected to announce the results of a wide-ranging review of how it will work in the future that will see a shift away from public evidence sessions.
An inquiry insider said: “We need to make this inquiry manageable and deliverable within a reasonable timescale and without excessive costs.”
More than two years after it was set up the inquiry has spent more than £20 million, recruited 167 staff, and amassed millions of pages of documents but has yet to hear any evidence.
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