UNITED KINGDOM
Cambs Times
3 October 2016 John Elworthy
Councillors rejected cutting £75,000 per year from staffing the county archives centre once it moves to Ely for fear it could jeopardise ongoing research into allegations of historic child sexual abuse.
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The proposal to reduce staffing costs was put to the county council highways and infrastructure committee on Tuesday.
The council’s executive director Graham Hughes said after the meeting: “Councillors decided they didn’t want to make the saving.”
Officers had warned the committee that the ability to provide “timely responses to demands from statutory public inquiries” could no longer be guaranteed.
The report said: “For example, archives staff are currently engaged in major work to identify all the records we hold which are expected to be of interest to the Jay inquiry on historic child sexual abuse.
“This work is possible with the current staffing establishment but not on reduced levels of staffing.”
The independent inquiry led by Professor Alexis Jay into child sexual abuse is investigating whether public bodies and other non-state institutions have taken seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse in England and Wales.
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