Education written question – answered at on 16 July 2014.
To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether any files on child abuse have been passed to her Department by (a) other parts of the Government or (b) hon. Members; and in what year such files were so passed.
In 2013 the Department for Education received information from the Department of Health which referred to 21 children’s homes and schools in England. This information had been uncovered as part of a document review process undertaken by the Metropolitan Police Service in the context of Operation Yewtree. The Secretary of State for Education gave details of this information in a written ministerial statement on
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmhansrd/cm140327/wmstext/140327m0001.htm#14032769000005
More generally, hon. and right hon. Members and concerned members of the public regularly write to the Department with concerns about child abuse or neglect, sometimes enclosing supporting documents. Such letters are dealt with as appropriate on a case by case basis.
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