Child Sexual Abuse (Independent Panel Inquiry)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 12:52 pm on 4 February 2015.

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Photo of Theresa May Theresa May The Secretary of State for the Home Department 12:52, 4 February 2015

The inquiry will look at abuse that has taken place in state institutions and non-state institutions. It will look at why it was possible for that abuse to take place. Those who are in authority in a school have a duty to protect the children and not to abuse them. The inquiry will look at whether the duty of care was exercised properly by people in those institutions, and at what lessons we need to learn to ensure that such abuse does not happen in the future.