Child Sexual Exploitation: Casey Report Debate
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Child Sexual Exploitation: Casey Report
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Nick Timothy (West Suffolk) (Con)
The official document published online by the Government says that the national inquiry will only
“co-ordinate a series of targeted local investigations.”
How many local investigations will the inquiry co-ordinate? Will it cover the whole of England and Wales—yes or no?
Yvette Cooper
The decisions about which areas are looked into, and how many, will be matters for the commission. We envisage the commission lasting for three years. I know that the Leader of the Opposition suggested two years, but we think it will need around three years to be able to pursue the scale of work that is needed. I think it is right that the final decisions are ones for the commission and the independent national inquiry itself, and it will be able to look anywhere across England and Wales and to pursue the evidence wherever it sees fit.