Statutory Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

Inquiry by the Home Affairs Committee, 7 October 2014 to 31 March 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 12th Report - Appointment of the Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (13 February 2015)
• 9th Special Report - Appointment of the Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: Government Response to the Committee's Twelfth Report of Session 2014-15 (23 March 2015)

Evidence sessions

• 21 October 2014: Fiona Woolf CBE
• 11 November 2014: Alison Millar, Counsel for the victims groups, Hilary Willmer, Chair, Parents against child sexual exploitation (PACE), and Peter Saunders, CEO, The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC); Peter Wanless, NSPCC, and Richard Whittam QC
• 20 January 2015: Drusilla Sharpling CBE, Panel Member, Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Professor Jenny Pearce OBE, Panel Member, Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Professor Alexis Jay OBE, Expert Adviser, Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, and Sharon Evans, Panel Member, Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
• 26 January 2015: Ben Emmerson QC, Counsel to the Independent Panel Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
• 11 February 2015: The Honourable Justice Lowell Goddard, Chair-designate of the Statutory Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse