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Researching Reform: Child abuse inquiry – process and prejudice
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The large scale
inquiry into
historic child abuse in England and Wales has gotten off to a rocky start,
having lost both chairs successively due to a string of concerning disclosures
which tainted both Baroness Butler-Sloss and London Lord Mayor Fiona Woolf, but
what kind of inquiry is it and will it be able to make a meaningful impact for
those children who have suffered at the hands of paedophiles in the UK?
In June 2014, over 120 MPs wrote to the Home Secretary Theresa May,
asking her to set up an investigation into the growing number of historic child
abuse allegations in the
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