{"id":73014,"date":"2016-08-04T18:47:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T18:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7ca9aee4d0c558aeef600b5af49e6212"},"modified":"2016-08-04T18:47:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T18:47:21","slug":"news-story-home-secretary-accepts-resignation-from-chair-of-child-sex-abuse-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=73014","title":{"rendered":"News story: Home Secretary accepts resignation from Chair of Child Sex Abuse Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, has today accepted the resignation of Dame Lowell Goddard, Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The Home Secretary said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I can confirm that Dame Lowell Goddard wrote to me today to offer her resignation as Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse and I have accepted. I want to assure everyone with an interest in the inquiry, particularly victims and survivors, that the work of the inquiry will continue without delay and a new chair will be appointed. I would like to thank Dame Lowell Goddard for the contribution she has made in setting up the inquiry so that it may continue to go about its vital work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/dame-lowell-goddard-resignation-letter-and-home-secretarys-response\">letter from Dame Lowell Goddard announcing her resignation from her role, and the Home Secretary\u2019s response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/independent-panel-inquiry-into-child-sexual-abuse\">information about the inquiry<\/a> is also available.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dame Lowell Goddard resigns as Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}