Inquiring into Inquiries

I want to pick up on something I mentioned in passing in my last post, namely issues of accountability and trust in public sector organizations. I’m prompted to do so because the other day I was listening to a news bulletin and several items were to do with the publication of reports by inquiries into various scandals or failures. There were reports from the inquiry into deaths in the maternity unit at Furness Hospital; the inquiry into the Oxford child abuse grooming cases; and in the US the