Despite aiming to publish their findings before the end of this year, the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry panel yesterday said that their conclusions would not be made public until some point during the first quarter of 2017.
The panel, which is led by Frances Oldham QC, spent two years investigating the Island’s care system since 1945 and heard from dozens of care leavers as well as alleged abusers.
The inquiry was initially given a £6 million budget by the States, but politicians approved a funding increase of £14 million in March 2015, which was raised again earlier this year to a total of £23 million – the current overall cost for the the entire process.
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