Missing Home Office dossier into 1980s child sex abuse cannot be found by inquiry

NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless has carried out a review
into Home Office handling of historic allegations of child abuse

Crucial Home Office files relating to allegations of  child sex abuse in the 1980s are still missing, it emerged last night.

A dossier seen as key to claims ministers were warned about allegations of Establishment abuse as not been found by an inquiry set up to examine the Home Office's handling of the complaints.

It was claimed former Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens handed the papers to the Home Office detailing allegations of abuse.

A review into the case by NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless is to be published next week.

Mr Dickens, who died in 1995, said he gave details of Establishment paedophiles – known as ‘Dickens dossier’ – to then Home Secretary Leon Brittan in 1983.

A source told BBC2's Newsnight: 'They have looked inside and behind every single cupboard in the department, and they have been round them twice, and they have not been able to find any of them.'  (more...)

Missing Home Office dossier into 1980s child sex abuse cannot be found by inquiry