Home Office fined £366,900 for breaking pay cap for abuse inquiry chief

The Home Office has been fined £366,900 for breaching the government’s senior salary pay cap when it appointed the head of a child sex abuse inquiry. It was penalised by the Treasury for failing to get clearance in advance before … Continue reading →

Powerful want us to fail, says head of historical child abuse inquiry

The head of the inquiry into historical child abuse has criticised powerful “vested interests” who see its work as a threat and want it to fail. Alexis Jay, who is the fourth person to chair the Independent Inquiry into Child … Continue reading →

Victims pull out of Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

Sex abuse victims have been “utterly marginalised” by an inquiry set up to help them, one of the victims claimed. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) is examining the extent to which religious groups and local authorities failed … Continue reading →

Alexis Jay calls for Yorkshire victims to help with ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ chance to expose nation’s child abuse evils

The woman who brought the scale of the horrifying Rotherham scandal to light is now urging other child abuse victims in Yorkshire to come forward. Chris Burn reports. Professor Alexis Jay is not a woman to sugarcoat the truth in … Continue reading →

CSE: 3,000 more lines of inquiry in Rotherham abuse investigation

ALMOST 3,000 more lines of inquiry and 20 further suspects have been identified in the last six months by investigators looking into child sex abuse in Rotherham, the Advertiser can reveal. The National Crime Agency’s (NCA) Operation Stovewood was set … Continue reading →

Scaling back of sex abuse inquiry ruled out

ROTHERHAM MP Sarah Champion has welcomed the results of an internal review which has concluded the national child sexual abuse inquiry will retain all of its investigations and should not be scaled back. Inquiry chairwoman Professor Alexis Jay has rejected … Continue reading →

Sex abuse probe won’t be scaled back, and it could last 10 years

THE national child sexual abuse inquiry will retain all of its investigations after an internal review concluded it should not be scaled back. Chairwoman Professor Alexis Jay, who led the inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, rejected suggestions that … Continue reading →