July 7, 2014 - Theresa May, the Home Secretary, asks Peter Wanless, chief executive of the NSPCC, to head an inquiry into the Home Office's handling of historic sex abuse cases. At the same time she announced an overarching review of historic sex abuse allegations - which later becomes embroiled in difficulties when the first chairwoman Baroness Butler-Sloss is forced to step down over a potential conflict of interest, followed by her successor Fiona Woolf over a similar clash.