Abuse Inquiry Reveals Huge Workload in Review of Nottinghamshire Claims

By Helen William
Care Appointments
May 12, 2017

http://www.careappointments.co.uk/care-news/england/item/41778-abuse-inquiry-reveals-huge-workload-in-review-of-nottinghamshire-claims

The independent inquiry into child sex abuse in England and Wales is looking at "tens of thousands of pages" of information about any potential failures to protect children in the care of the Nottinghamshire Councils alone, its counsel said.

The scale of the task of officials currently trawling through information, including material from councils, police, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Health Department, "cannot be underestimated", Inquiry counsel Patrick Sadd said.

He told a preliminary hearing of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA): "To date this investigation has received tens of thousands of pages of which a large proportion have already been reviewed in some form.

"This means that we are considering the contents, deciding upon their relevance and using them to inform our decisions about the approach that the investigation will take going forward."