The political reality was that demonstrable action was essential: ministers realised they had to act because for weeks now, there had been a loud and very angry public argument about child sexual exploitation.
The biggest catalyst of anger is a smothering sense of inertia - a collective sense of a state failure to confront monstrous crimes, deliver justice and prevent it continuing to happen.
Ministers hope that it will at least dampen, if not extinguish, those accusations of a cover-up, while being conscious that there are prominent voices... who argue that another [inquiry] would be counterproductive.
Prof Jay's inquiry heard the testimony of 7,000 people and she has argued the focus must now be on action, on delivering changes.
Collection
[
|
...
]