Appendix 1: Home Office Criteria for Chairman
The Chairman must have the appropriate skills and
expertise, and must pass set due diligence checks.
1. Skills
· Leadership
- experience of leading large, important and sensitive areas of
work
· Respect - can
command the respect, confidence and trust of survivors and Panel
members
· Authority -
someone who can command the respect of those in organisations
and institutions
· Objectivity
- someone who can consider complex information and give an impartial
view
· Professionalism
- someone who will work collectively as part of a team and acts
with integrity at all times.
· Resilience
- someone who has the
capacity to manage stressful situations and is able to operate
in challenging circumstances.
2. Expertise
· Knowledge
- understands child sexual abuse and safeguarding and/or the institutions
and organisations involved. Also appreciates the long-term impacts
on adults who have experienced sexual abuse in childhood.
· Experience
- has worked with vulnerable people, on sensitive issues, and/or
on investigations and complex lines of enquiry that involve the
collection of evidence.
3. Due diligence
· No
personal links to those who have been convicted, or are subject
to police investigation, of child sexual abuse
· No direct links
to key institutions or individuals reasonably likely to be covered
by the Inquiry
· DBS enhanced
check
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