Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish the recent review into the provision of services for children who have experienced sexual abuse in the East of England; and if he will make a statement.

It is not clear which review the hon. Member is referring to. However, a review was recently published concerning Myles Bradbury, the paediatrician, who was convicted for sexually abusing 18 boys in his care at hospitals in East Anglia. The independent review, commissioned by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust into the abuses, was published in October 2015. A copy of the report, titled Independent investigation into governance arrangements in the paediatric haematology and oncology service at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust following the Myles Bradbury case, is available on the Trust’s website at the following link:

http://www.cuh.org.uk/news/cuh-response-independent-myles-bradbury-report.

The NHS Trust is responsible for achieving the recommendations of the Review. NHS England, which is accountable for safeguarding in the National Health Service, has put in place an action plan to support local and national implementation, appointed a senior clinician to facilitate this and have set up four regional events to disseminate the learning.