UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
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Retired judge Baroness Butler-Sloss has used her first appearance in the House of Lords since stepping down as head of a probe into child sex abuse to call for extra funds to be given to the police to help the tackle child abuse.
Lady Butler-Sloss who sits as a crossbench peer told peers that the police’s ability to tackle both historical and ongoing child abuse is being undermined by cuts to their funding.
“There needs to be sufficient resources for the police, who are at the moment being cut down” she told peers
The former High Court judge stepped down as the head of an independent inquiry into allegations of historical child abuse on 14 July saying she was “not the right person” for the job.
Her resignation came after days of pressure over her links to the political establishment in the 1980s, when her late brother, Sir Michael Havers, was attorney general.
Several other peers called for the government to do more to prevent and tackle child abuse during the oral questions session on 15 July 2014.
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