WALES
Wales Online
16 JULY 2015
BY DAVID WILLIAMSON
The Cynon Valley MP told the Government it was ‘high time’ for changes to be made
Veteran Welsh Labour MP Ann Clwyd has called for reform to ensure that insurance companies do not impede investigations into child abuse.
The Cynon Valley MP secured a debate in which she said that reports into abuse in homes run by the former Clwyd County Council had been “prevented from publication by the council’s insurers.”
She said the council was warned by its insurers that the publication of the Cartrefle Report, the findings of an investigation by Detective Inspector Cronin in the early 1990s “could amount to a waiver of public interest immunity or privilege”.
The subsequent Jillings inquiry, commissioned in 1994, also hit roadblocks and was not able to access boxes of material handed to the police by the council.
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