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A senior Home Office civil servant is set to be quizzed is set to be quizzed by MPs over the handling of files relating to allegations of child sex abuse involving politicians made over a 20-year period.
Permanent secretary of Home Office Mark Sedwill will appear before the Home Affairs Select Committee to face questions over the quality of a review he commissioned last year and also the114 missing files that could shed light on alleged abuse in the 1980s.
Home Secretary Theresa May has announced to launch a Hillsborough-style independent inquiry to investigate the handling of matter by public bodies.
In the meantime Ms May has also said to be confident that the work commissioned by Mr Sedwill was “carried out in good faith”.
However, she has also added that with “allegations as serious as these the public need to have complete confidence in the integrity of the investigation’s findings”.
The announcement in the House of Commons came after Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to leave “no stone unturned” in seeking the truth about widespread allegations of a paedophile ring with links to the establishment in the 1980s and a lost 50-page dossier by the then Home Secretary Lord Britton handed over by the late MP Geoffrey Dickens.
Ms May has told that the wide-range investigation that will comprise of probing the BBC, NHS, political parties and Church, could be upgraded to a full public inquiry if the expert panel believes it as necessary.
In addition, chief executive of children’s charity NSPCC, Peter Wanless will lead a review into the Home Office’s handling of historical child sex abuse.
The initial findings of Mr Wanless’s review, which will also cover how police and prosecutors handled any information handed to them, are likely to be concluded and publish within eight to 10 weeks.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has welcomed the investigations on behalf of Labour as she has appreciated the steps taken by Ms May while insisting on the “need for justice for victims” of child sex abuse as well as “a stronger system of child protection for the future”.
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