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Tim Loughton MP: We have the child abuse inquiry that I and others campaigned for. This is what it now needs to do.
By Tim Loughton
Tim Loughton is MP for East Worthing and Shoreham and a former Minister for Children and Families.
It was back in November 2012 that I published an open letter to the Prime Minister on this website requesting that he set up an overarching inquiry into historic child sex abuse in the wake of the flood of abuse stories coming out of the Jimmy Savile revelations.
Twenty months on, that flood had become a tsunami, engulfing the BBC, NHS, independent schools, churches, care homes – and it was threatening to cascade into the world of politics too.
Last month, together with Zac Goldsmith and five other MPs from other parties I wrote to the Home Secretary repeating that request, given the mounting pressure built up from the relentless headlines about yet another child abuse scandal. The campaigning website Exaro helped to spark a social media campaign, putting the matter on MPs’ radar – and after I wrote to all colleagues last week inviting them to co-sign our letter no fewer than 141 had done so by Monday, and rising.
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