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174035

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	date	15/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Offences against Children
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate she has made of the number of new cases of historic child abuse which have come forward in the last 12 months; and what recent assessment she has made of the capabilities of police forces to deal with such cases.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	221031
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>Child sexual abuse is a reprehensible crime which this government is determined to stamp out. We have been clear that if anyone has been a victim of child sexual abuse, or knows of someone who has been a victim, then they should <br>report it to the police so that it can be thoroughly investigated. The Home Office does not collate statistics on the number of historic cases of child abuse being reported. The resourcing for individual operations investigating child sexual abuse is an operational matter for the relevant Chief Officer. <br><br>Operation Hydrant is the national policing response to the oversight and co-ordination of all child abuse investigations concerning persons of public prominence or those offences which took place historically in institutional <br>settings. Overseen by the National Policing Lead for Child Protection and Abuse Investigations, Operation Hydrant is responsible for the production of best practice guidance for Senior Investigating Officers (SIOs) investigating <br>relevant allegations.<br><br>The College of Policing has also produced Authorised Professional Practice (APP) for forces on Managing complex child abuse investigations.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 22/01/2015 13:51:03 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone previous answer version 39262 answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton

174036

	registered interest
	date	15/01/2015
	answering body	Home Office
	answering dept id	1
	answering dept short name	Home Office
	answering dept sort name	Home Office
	hansard heading	Child Sexual Abuse Independent Panel Inquiry
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what instructions or guidance officials of her Department have given to members of the Independent Inquiry Panel into child sexual abuse about speaking in public about the work of that Panel.
	tabling member constituency	East Worthing and Shoreham
	tabling member printed	Tim Loughton
	uin	221032
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/01/2015 answer text <p>Before the panel began its substantive work, and the secretariat was fully established, limited guidance was offered to those panel members who needed it.<br><br>Panel members are now supported by their own independent secretariat and Counsel. The secretariat will have its own procedures on speaking in publicabout the work of the Inquiry, although we would expect any procedures to respect the <br>confidentiality of meetings held with survivors.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone question first answered 22/01/2015 13:53:52 answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone previous answer version 39263 answering member constituency Hornsey and Wood Green answering member printed Lynne Featherstone answering member 1531 label Biography information for Baroness Featherstone
	tabling member	114 label Biography information for Tim Loughton