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British Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to uncover the truth into historical paedophile claims through an independent inquiry to see how public institutions handled allegations of child abuse.
Mr Cameron has said there would be “no stone unturned to find out… about what happened” by the probe into handling of the child abuse claims by various public institutions, adding that it was “vital” that lessons were learned about “things that have gone wrong”.
The PM has added: “It’s also important that the police feel that they can go wherever the evidence leads and they can make all the appropriate arrangements to investigate this properly… so that we make sure these things cannot happen again – that’s what will happen under my government.”
Home Secretary Theresa May is due to announce a “wide-range” independent inquiry later on Monday as she makes a statement to MPs about claims of an organised child abuse ring at Westminster during the 1980s.
The statement comes in the wake when the permanent secretary at the Home Office, Mark Sedwill, has assured to appoint a legal expert to carry out an independent review into what happened to a 50-page dossier containing the allegations, passed to then-Home Secretary Leon (now Lord) Brittan in 1983 by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens.
He has also revealed that a preview review into the same matter conducted last year had found that 114 files containing “potentially relevant” information were “presumed destroyed, missing or not found”.
Conservative peer Lord Brittan has welcomed the review while insisting that claims he failed to deal adequately as home secretary with a dossier of information handed to him by campaigning MP Geoffrey Dickens in 1983 were without any solid basis.
While highlighting the importance of protection of children from abuse, a Home Office spokesperson has said: After “allegations that in the 1980s the Home Office failed to act on evidence of child abuse, the Permanent Secretary ordered an investigation by an independent expert in February 2013.
“That investigation reported last year and its executive summary was published on 1 August 2013. During the course of the investigation, 13 items of information about alleged child abuse were found.
“The police already knew about nine of those items, and the remaining four were passed to the police immediately. It is important that we do not pre-empt or prejudice any related police investigations.”
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