Alexis Jay
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Alexis Jay OBE |
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| Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse | |
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Assumed office 11 August 2016 |
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| Appointed by |
Amber Rudd (as Home Secretary) |
| Preceded by | Dame Lowell Goddard |
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| Born |
Alexandrina Henderson Farmer 25 April 1949 Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| Occupation | Professor, social work leader |
Alexandrina Henderson Farmer Jay, OBE (born 25 April 1949) is a British social worker and academic. She is a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde and the independent chair of the Centre for Excellence for Looked After Children in Scotland (CELCIS).
Following the resignation of Justice Lowell Goddard, Home Secretary Amber Rudd announced on 11 August 2016 that Jay had been appointed to chair the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, of which she had previously been a Panel member.
Jay is a former senior social worker. She was previously chief social work adviser to the Scottish Government. and a former president of the Association of Directors of Social Work.
She was born in Edinburgh. Her father, who was a carpenter, died following an industrial accident when she was two. She studied social work at Moray House School of Education, now part of the University of Edinburgh.
In 2005, she took up the post of chief social work inspector at the Social Work Inspection Agency (SWIA), a government organisation scrutinising all aspects of social services provided by local authorities in Scotland. She served as chief executive and chief social work inspector until the functions of SWIA and the Care Commission were taken over by the Care Inspectorate in 2011. She remained as chief social work inspector to the Scottish Government until early 2013.
She led the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham, an investigation into child sexual abuse in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire. She is the author of the investigation's report, published in August 2014.
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